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title: Among its early Indonesian promoters was Soewardi Soerjaningrat (Ki… — Indonesia · tree and pragmatics
description: Among its early Indonesian promoters was Soewardi Soerjaningrat (Ki Hajar Dewantara), who established the Indonesisch Persbureau in The Hague in November 1918, a press bureau that used Indonesia in its name. Who acts: Soewardi, press bureau, Usage. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Indonesia» with its depe
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# Indonesia, sentence 27

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From Wikipedia, [«Indonesia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia), 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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Among its early Indonesian promoters was Soewardi Soerjaningrat (Ki Hajar Dewantara), who established the Indonesisch Persbureau in The Hague in November 1918, a press bureau that used Indonesia in its name.

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**Who acts:** Soewardi, press bureau, Usage · **What happens:** be, establish, use, name · **To what, where:** Soewardi, Indonesisch Persbureau, Hague, Indonesia, name

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Indonesia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soewardi, press bureau, Usage), 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:Indonesia:27
# text = Among its early Indonesian promoters was Soewardi Soerjaningrat (Ki Hajar Dewantara), who established the Indonesisch Persbureau in The Hague in November 1918, a press bureau that used Indonesia in its name.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Indonesian	indonesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	promoters	promoter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	Soewardi	Soewardi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	Soerjaningrat	Soerjaningrat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Ki	Ki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Hajar	Hajar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	Dewantara	Dewantara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Indonesisch	Indonesisch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Persbureau	Persbureau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Hague	Hague	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	bureau	bureau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Soewardi |  |  |  | among Usage's early Indonesian promoters; Ki Hajar *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **establish** | past | Soewardi | the Indonesisch Persbureau |  | the Hague |  | in November | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent persbureau=Patient |
| 3 | **use** | past | a press bureau | Indonesia |  | Usage's name |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indonesia=Patient |
| 4 | **name** |  | Usage |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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, «Indonesia», 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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