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title: The Thames was once much broader and shallower with extensive wetlan… — London · tree and pragmatics
description: The Thames was once much broader and shallower with extensive wetlands; at high tide, its shores reached five times their present width. Who acts: Thames, shores. A sentence of Wikipedia's «London» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# London, sentence 164

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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 Thames was once much broader and shallower with extensive wetlands; at high tide, its shores reached five times their present width.

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**Who acts:** Thames, shores · **What happens:** be, reach · **To what, where:** present width, high tide

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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 (Thames, shores), 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:164
# text = The Thames was once much broader and shallower with extensive wetlands; at high tide, its shores reached five times their present width.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Thames	Thames	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	broader	broad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	shallower	shallow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wetlands	wetland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	width	width	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Thames |  |  |  |  | with extensive wetlands; broad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the Thames *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach** | past | Thames's shores | shores's present width |  | high tide | time |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent width=Theme at tide=Asset |

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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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