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title: Its members were primarily interested in rowing, but also swimming a… — Ljubljana · tree and pragmatics
description: Its members were primarily interested in rowing, but also swimming and football. Who acts: members. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ljubljana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ljubljana, sentence 319

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From Wikipedia, [«Ljubljana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana), 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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Its members were primarily interested in rowing, but also swimming and football.

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**Who acts:** members · **What happens:** be, row, swim

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ljubljana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (members), 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:Ljubljana:319
# text = Its members were primarily interested in rowing, but also swimming and football.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	rowing	row	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Association's members |  |  |  |  | interested, primarily *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **row** | gerund | Association's members *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **swim** | gerund | Association's members *not said here* |  |  |  |  | football *conj* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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, «Ljubljana», 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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