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title: Efforts to stop the invasion, most notably the sinking of the Blüche… — Oslo · tree and pragmatics
description: Efforts to stop the invasion, most notably the sinking of the Blücher, delayed the occupation of Oslo for several hours which allowed King Haakon to escape the city. Who acts: Efforts, several hours, King, Blücher. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oslo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Oslo, sentence 112

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From Wikipedia, [«Oslo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo), 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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Efforts to stop the invasion, most notably the sinking of the Blücher, delayed the occupation of Oslo for several hours which allowed King Haakon to escape the city.

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**Who acts:** Efforts, several hours, King, Blücher · **What happens:** stop, delay, allow, escape, sink, occupy · **To what, where:** invasion, occupation, King, city, Oslo

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Oslo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Efforts, several hours, King, Blücher), 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:Oslo:112
# text = Efforts to stop the invasion, most notably the sinking of the Blücher, delayed the occupation of Oslo for several hours which allowed King Haakon to escape the city.
1	Efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	notably	notably	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sinking	sinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Blücher	Blücher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	delayed	delay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Oslo	Oslo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	Haakon	Haakon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | to-infinitive | Efforts and the sinking of the Blücher *not said here* | the invasion |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality invasion=Eventuality |
| 2 | **delay** | past | Efforts and the sinking of the Blücher | the occupation of Oslo |  |  | hour |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent occupation=Source |
| 3 | **allow** | past | several hours | King |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer king=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **escape** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | the city |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **sink** |  | the Blücher |  |  |  |  |  | nom sinking «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **occupy** |  |  | Oslo |  |  |  |  | nom occupation «act transitive»: of=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, «Oslo», 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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