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title: After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Ch… — Oslo · tree and pragmatics
description: After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in honour of the king. Who acts: fire. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oslo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Oslo, sentence 8

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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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After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in honour of the king.

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**Who acts:** fire · **What happens:** destroy, build, name, honour · **To what, where:** 1624, new city, honour, king

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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 (fire), 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:8
# text = After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in honour of the king.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1624	1624	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	during	during	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	IV	IV	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
23	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Akershus	Akershus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Fortress	Fortress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
29	Christiania	Christiania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | gerund · passive | a fire |  |  | 1624 |  | the reign of Christian  King *parataxis* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **build** | past · passive |  | a new city |  |  |  | close *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **name** | participle |  |  |  | honour of the king |  | Christiania *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **honour** |  |  | the king |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state 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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