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title: Nationalised in 1970 and then purchased by London Transport (now Tra… — London · tree and pragmatics
description: Nationalised in 1970 and then purchased by London Transport (now Transport for London), Victoria Coach Station has over 14 million passengers a year and provides services across the UK and continental Europe. A sentence of Wikipedia's «London» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# London, sentence 320

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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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Nationalised in 1970 and then purchased by London Transport (now Transport for London), Victoria Coach Station has over 14 million passengers a year and provides services across the UK and continental Europe.

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**What happens:** nationalis, purchase, have over, provide · **To what, where:** 1970, million passengers, services, UK

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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: 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:320
# text = Nationalised in 1970 and then purchased by London Transport (now Transport for London), Victoria Coach Station has over 14 million passengers a year and provides services across the UK and continental Europe.
1	Nationalised	nationalis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	1970	1970	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	purchased	purchase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Transport	Transport	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	Transport	Transport	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Victoria	Victoria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	Coach	Coach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	over	over	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	compound	_	_
23	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	provides	provide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
29	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	across	across	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	continental	continental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nationalis** | participle |  |  |  | 1970 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **purchase** | participle |  |  |  |  | then | by London Transport and Victoria and Coach Station | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **have over** | present |  | million passengers  a year |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passenger=Patient |
| 4 | **provide** | present |  | services |  | the UK and continental Europe |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition service=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, «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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