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title: Helicopter service between the airports shortens travel time. — Castries · tree and pragmatics
description: Helicopter service between the airports shortens travel time. Who acts: Helicopter service. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Castries» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Castries, sentence 27

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From Wikipedia, [«Castries»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castries), 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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Helicopter service between the airports shortens travel time.

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**Who acts:** Helicopter service · **What happens:** shorten

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Castries». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helicopter service), 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:Castries:27
# text = Helicopter service between the airports shortens travel time.
1	Helicopter	helicopter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	airports	airport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	shortens	shorten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shorten** | present | Helicopter service between the airports |  |  |  | time |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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, «Castries», 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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