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title: In the 1940s, George Orwell wrote essays in the London Evening Stand… — London · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1940s, George Orwell wrote essays in the London Evening Standard, including "The Moon Under Water" (an ideal pub). Who acts: George. A sentence of Wikipedia's «London» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# London, sentence 400

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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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In the 1940s, George Orwell wrote essays in the London Evening Standard, including "The Moon Under Water" (an ideal pub).

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**Who acts:** George · **What happens:** write, include · **To what, where:** essays, 1940s

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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 (George), 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:400
# text = In the 1940s, George Orwell wrote essays in the London Evening Standard, including "The Moon Under Water" (an ideal pub).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1940s	1940	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Orwell	Orwell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	essays	essay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	Evening	Evening	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Standard	Standard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	case	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Under	Under	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	ideal	ideal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	pub	pub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | George | essays |  | the 1940s |  | in the London Evening Standard and the Under Water | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent essay=Theme in 1940=Destination |
| 2 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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