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title: In the first wave, all six planes (carrying one bomb each) hit their… — Copenhagen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the first wave, all six planes (carrying one bomb each) hit their target, but one of the aircraft crashed near Frederiksberg Girls School. Who acts: six planes, one, waves. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Copenhagen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Copenhagen, sentence 136

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From Wikipedia, [«Copenhagen»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen), 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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In the first wave, all six planes (carrying one bomb each) hit their target, but one of the aircraft crashed near Frederiksberg Girls School.

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**Who acts:** six planes, one, waves · **What happens:** carry, hit, crash, target · **To what, where:** one bomb, target, first wave, Frederiksberg Girls School

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Copenhagen». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (six planes, one, waves), 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:Copenhagen:136
# text = In the first wave, all six planes (carrying one bomb each) hit their target, but one of the aircraft crashed near Frederiksberg Girls School.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	planes	plane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	bomb	bomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
15	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	target	target	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	aircraft	aircraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	crashed	crash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	near	near	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	Frederiksberg	Frederiksberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	Girls	Girls	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	School	School	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | gerund | all six planes *not said here* | one bomb |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bomb=Theme |
| 2 | **hit** | past | all six planes | waves's target |  | the first wave |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent target=Theme in wave=Destination |
| 3 | **crash** | past | one of the aircraft |  |  | Frederiksberg Girls School |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near school=Location |
| 4 | **target** |  | waves *= wave* |  |  |  |  |  | nom target «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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, «Copenhagen», 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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