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title: Oslo used to have a summer parade similar to the German Love Parade. — Norway · tree and pragmatics
description: Oslo used to have a summer parade similar to the German Love Parade. Who acts: Oslo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Norway» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Norway, sentence 612

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From Wikipedia, [«Norway»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway), 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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Oslo used to have a summer parade similar to the German Love Parade.

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**Who acts:** Oslo · **What happens:** use, have · **To what, where:** summer parade

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Norway». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oslo), 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:Norway:612
# text = Oslo used to have a summer parade similar to the German Love Parade.
1	Oslo	Oslo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	parade	parade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	Love	Love	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Parade	Parade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Oslo |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | Oslo *not said here* | a summer parade |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parade=Patient |

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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, «Norway», 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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