--- title: Not only has no evidence been found of a river "Lo" predating the wo… — Oslo · tree and pragmatics description: Not only has no evidence been found of a river "Lo" predating the work where Peder Claussøn Friis first proposed this etymology, but the very name is ungrammatical in Norwegian: the correct form would have been Loaros (cf. Who acts: river, Peder, name, correct form. 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Not only has no evidence been found of a river "Lo" predating the work where Peder Claussøn Friis first proposed this etymology, but the very name is ungrammatical in Norwegian: the correct form would have been Loaros (cf. **Who acts:** river, Peder, name, correct form · **What happens:** not have, find, predate, propose, be, cf · **To what, where:** evidence, work, etymology, Norwegian, Loaros 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 (river, Peder, name, correct form), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:52 # text = Not only has no evidence been found of a river "Lo" predating the work where Peder Claussøn Friis first proposed this etymology, but the very name is ungrammatical in Norwegian: the correct form would have been Loaros (cf. 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 2 only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Lo lo INTJ UH _ 14 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 predating predate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 18 Peder Peder PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 Claussøn Claussøn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ _ 20 Friis Friis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ _ 21 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 22 advmod _ _ 22 proposed propose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 23 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 etymology etymology NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 ungrammatical ungrammatical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Norwegian Norwegian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 : : PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 correct correct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 38 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 39 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux _ _ 40 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 41 cop _ _ 41 Loaros Loaros PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 42 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 cf cf NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **have** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | participle · passive | | no evidence | | | | of a river | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 3 | **predate** | gerund | a river *not said here* | the work | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme work=Co-Theme | | 4 | **propose** | past | Peder | this etymology | | | | first *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent etymology=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the name | | | Norwegian | | ungrammatical *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | infinitive · perfect | | Loaros | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **cf** | would | the correct form | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Oslo/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Oslo/53/) - ↑ back to [Oslo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Oslo/)