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title: Plaques on house exteriors will inform passers-by that a well-known… — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: Plaques on house exteriors will inform passers-by that a well-known personality once lived there. Who acts: Plaques, known personality. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moscow» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moscow, sentence 321

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From Wikipedia, [«Moscow»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow), 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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Plaques on house exteriors will inform passers-by that a well-known personality once lived there.

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**Who acts:** Plaques, known personality · **What happens:** inform, know, live · **To what, where:** passers

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Moscow». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Plaques, known personality), 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:Moscow:321
# text = Plaques on house exteriors will inform passers-by that a well-known personality once lived there.
1	Plaques	plaque	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	exteriors	exterior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	inform	inform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	passers	passer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	personality	personality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
17	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | future | Plaques on house exteriors |  | passers |  |  | by that | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent passer=Recipient |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **live** | past | a known personality |  |  | there |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «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, «Moscow», 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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