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title: Jo Nesbø (born 1960), writer, musician, economist, and former soccer… — Oslo · tree and pragmatics
description: Jo Nesbø (born 1960), writer, musician, economist, and former soccer player Who acts: Jo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oslo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Oslo, sentence 494

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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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Jo Nesbø (born 1960), writer, musician, economist, and former soccer player

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**Who acts:** Jo · **What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** 1960, Jo writer

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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 (Jo), 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:494
# text = Jo Nesbø (born 1960), writer, musician, economist, and former soccer player
1	Jo	Jo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
2	Nesbø	Nesbø	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	musician	musician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	economist	economist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	soccer	soccer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle | Jo *not said here* | 1960 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1960=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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