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title: Linstow also planned Karl Johans gate, the avenue connecting the Pal… — Oslo · tree and pragmatics
description: Linstow also planned Karl Johans gate, the avenue connecting the Palace and the city, with a monumental square halfway to be surrounded by buildings for University, the Parliament (Storting) and other institutions. Who acts: Linstow, avenue, buildings, Parliament. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oslo» wi
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# Oslo, sentence 181

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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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Linstow also planned Karl Johans gate, the avenue connecting the Palace and the city, with a monumental square halfway to be surrounded by buildings for University, the Parliament (Storting) and other institutions.

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**Who acts:** Linstow, avenue, buildings, Parliament · **What happens:** plan, connect, surround, stort · **To what, where:** Karl gate, Palace

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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 (Linstow, avenue, buildings, Parliament), 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:181
# text = Linstow also planned Karl Johans gate, the avenue connecting the Palace and the city, with a monumental square halfway to be surrounded by buildings for University, the Parliament (Storting) and other institutions.
1	Linstow	Linstow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	planned	plan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Karl	Karl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Johans	Johans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	avenue	avenue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	connecting	connect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	monumental	monumental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
21	halfway	halfway	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:agent	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Storting	stort	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	institutions	institution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **plan** | past | Linstow | Karl gate |  |  |  | a monumental square *parataxis* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Topic |
| 2 | **connect** | gerund | the avenue *not said here* | the Palace and the city |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Patient |
| 3 | **surround** | to-infinitive · passive | buildings for University and the Parliament and other institutions |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stort** | gerund | the Parliament *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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