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title: The capital of England was moved from Winchester as the Palace of We… — London · tree and pragmatics
description: The capital of England was moved from Winchester as the Palace of Westminster developed in the 12th and 13th centuries to become the home of the royal court, and thus the nation's political capital. Who acts: Palace. A sentence of Wikipedia's «London» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# London, sentence 158

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From Wikipedia, [«London»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London), 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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The capital of England was moved from Winchester as the Palace of Westminster developed in the 12th and 13th centuries to become the home of the royal court, and thus the nation's political capital.

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**Who acts:** Palace · **What happens:** move, develop, become · **To what, where:** capital, Winchester, 12th, home

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «London». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Palace), 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:London:158
# text = The capital of England was moved from Winchester as the Palace of Westminster developed in the 12th and 13th centuries to become the home of the royal court, and thus the nation's political capital.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Winchester	Winchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Westminster	Westminster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	developed	develop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	12th	12th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	13th	13th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past · passive |  | the capital of England |  | Winchester |  | the nation's political capital *parataxis* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from winchester=Trajectory |
| 2 | **develop** | past | the Palace of Westminster |  |  | the 12th and 13th centuries |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 12th=Location |
| 3 | **become** | to-infinitive | the Palace of Westminster *not said here* | the home of the royal court |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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, «London», 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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