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title: Oral traditions ranged from storytelling to songs, customs, beliefs,… — Indonesia · tree and pragmatics
description: Oral traditions ranged from storytelling to songs, customs, beliefs, and other community forms, while material could pass between oral and written transmission. Who acts: Oral traditions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Indonesia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Indonesia, sentence 333

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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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Oral traditions ranged from storytelling to songs, customs, beliefs, and other community forms, while material could pass between oral and written transmission.

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**Who acts:** Oral traditions · **What happens:** range, pass, write · **To what, where:** Oral traditions, storytelling, oral

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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 (Oral traditions), 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:333
# text = Oral traditions ranged from storytelling to songs, customs, beliefs, and other community forms, while material could pass between oral and written transmission.
1	Oral	oral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
3	ranged	range	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	storytelling	storytelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	oral	oral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	transmission	transmission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **range** | participle |  | Oral traditions and other community forms *not said here* |  | storytelling |  | to songs and customs and beliefs | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from storytelling=Location |
| 2 | **pass** | could | Oral traditions and other community forms |  |  | oral and written transmission |  | material *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between oral=Location |
| 3 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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