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title: It was this composite plan that was endorsed by Parliament and given… — Canberra · tree and pragmatics
description: It was this composite plan that was endorsed by Parliament and given formal approval by O'Malley on 10 January 1913. Who acts: plan, Parliament. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canberra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canberra, sentence 92

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From Wikipedia, [«Canberra»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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It was this composite plan that was endorsed by Parliament and given formal approval by O'Malley on 10 January 1913.

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**Who acts:** plan, Parliament · **What happens:** be, endorse, give · **To what, where:** composite plan, formal approval

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canberra». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan, Parliament), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Canberra:92
# text = It was this composite plan that was endorsed by Parliament and given formal approval by O'Malley on 10 January 1913.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	composite	composite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	endorsed	endorse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
13	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	approval	approval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	O'Malley	O'Malley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	1913	1913	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | plan | this composite plan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **endorse** | past · passive | Parliament | this composite plan |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **give** | participle | Parliament *not said here* | formal approval |  |  | january | by O'Malley | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approval=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Canberra», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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