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title: The British Phonographic Industry's annual popular music awards, the… — London · tree and pragmatics
description: The British Phonographic Industry's annual popular music awards, the Brit Awards, are held in London. Who acts: British Phonographic Industry. A sentence of Wikipedia's «London» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# London, sentence 440

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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 British Phonographic Industry's annual popular music awards, the Brit Awards, are held in London.

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**Who acts:** British Phonographic Industry · **What happens:** hold, award · **To what, where:** annual popular music awards, London

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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 (British Phonographic Industry), 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:440
# text = The British Phonographic Industry's annual popular music awards, the Brit Awards, are held in London.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Phonographic	Phonographic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Industry	Industry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	awards	award	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Brit	Brit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Awards	Award	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present · passive |  | the British Phonographic Industry's annual popular music awards |  | London |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in london=Location |
| 2 | **award** |  | the British Phonographic Industry |  |  |  |  |  | nom award «act transitive»: poss=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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