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title: The M25 is the second-longest ring-road motorway in Europe at 117 mi… — London · tree and pragmatics
description: The M25 is the second-longest ring-road motorway in Europe at 117 mi long. Who acts: M25. A sentence of Wikipedia's «London» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# London, sentence 324

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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 M25 is the second-longest ring-road motorway in Europe at 117 mi long.

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**Who acts:** M25 · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** second longest road motorway, Europe

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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 (M25), 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:324
# text = The M25 is the second-longest ring-road motorway in Europe at 117 mi long.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	M25	M25	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
5	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	motorway	motorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	117	117	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	mi	mi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the M25 | the second longest road motorway |  | Europe |  | at 117 mi | 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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