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title: In 2018, Oslo banned all non-resident cars from its downtown areas. — Oslo · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2018, Oslo banned all non-resident cars from its downtown areas. Who acts: Oslo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oslo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Oslo, sentence 419

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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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In 2018, Oslo banned all non-resident cars from its downtown areas.

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**Who acts:** Oslo · **What happens:** ban · **To what, where:** non-resident cars, 2018

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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 (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:Oslo:419
# text = In 2018, Oslo banned all non-resident cars from its downtown areas.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Oslo	Oslo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	banned	ban	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	non-resident	non-resident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	downtown	downtown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ban** | past | Oslo | all non-resident cars |  | 2018 |  | from use's downtown areas | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer car=Beneficiary from area=Eventuality |

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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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