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title: There are some colonial era buildings around the centre of the city,… — Maseru · tree and pragmatics
description: There are some colonial era buildings around the centre of the city, most notably the Cathedral of Our Lady of Victories of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maseru, and the Anglican St. John's Church. Who acts: colonial era buildings. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maseru» with its dependency tree and 
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# Maseru, sentence 64

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From Wikipedia, [«Maseru»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maseru), 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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There are some colonial era buildings around the centre of the city, most notably the Cathedral of Our Lady of Victories of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maseru, and the Anglican St. John's Church.

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**Who acts:** colonial era buildings · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Maseru». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colonial era buildings), 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:Maseru:64
# text = There are some colonial era buildings around the centre of the city, most notably the Cathedral of Our Lady of Victories of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maseru, and the Anglican St. John's Church.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
4	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	15	advmod	_	_
15	notably	notably	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Victories	Victory	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	Catholic	catholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Archdiocese	Archdiocese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Maseru	Maseru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	Anglican	Anglican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:desc	_	_
35	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | some colonial era buildings around the centre of the city and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Victories of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maseru |  |  | there |  | the Anglican John  St.'s Church *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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, «Maseru», 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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