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title: Robert Louis Stevenson narrated the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr… — London · tree and pragmatics
description: Robert Louis Stevenson narrated the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a gothic London novella. Who acts: Robert. A sentence of Wikipedia's «London» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# London, sentence 397

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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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Robert Louis Stevenson narrated the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a gothic London novella.

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**Who acts:** Robert · **What happens:** narrate · **To what, where:** Strange Case

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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 (Robert), 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:397
# text = Robert Louis Stevenson narrated the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a gothic London novella.
1	Robert	Robert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Stevenson	Stevenson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	narrated	narrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Dr	Dr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Jekyll	Jekyll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	Hyde	Hyde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	novella	novella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **narrate** *speech: other* | past | Robert | the Strange Case of Jekyll  Dr and Mr and a gothic London novella |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Topic |

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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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