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title: This only lasted until about AD 61, when the Iceni tribe led by Quee… — London · tree and pragmatics
description: This only lasted until about AD 61, when the Iceni tribe led by Queen Boudica stormed it and burnt it to the ground. Who acts: This, Iceni tribe. A sentence of Wikipedia's «London» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# London, sentence 31

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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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This only lasted until about AD 61, when the Iceni tribe led by Queen Boudica stormed it and burnt it to the ground.

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**Who acts:** This, Iceni tribe · **What happens:** last, lead, storm, burnt · **To what, where:** Iceni tribe, settlement

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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 (This, Iceni tribe), 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:31
# text = This only lasted until about AD 61, when the Iceni tribe led by Queen Boudica stormed it and burnt it to the ground.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	until	until	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	61	61	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Iceni	iceni	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Boudica	Boudica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl:agent	_	_
17	stormed	storm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | past | This |  |  |  | until AD |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | participle |  | the Iceni tribe *not said here* |  |  |  | Queen Boudica *obl:agent* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **storm** | past | the Iceni tribe | settlement |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **burnt** | past | the Iceni tribe *not said here* | settlement |  |  |  | to the ground | tree rules |

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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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