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title: At that time the area called Oslo (now Gamlebyen or Old Town) was a… — Oslo · tree and pragmatics
description: At that time the area called Oslo (now Gamlebyen or Old Town) was a village or suburb outside the city borders east of Aker river. Who acts: area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oslo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Oslo, sentence 97

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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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At that time the area called Oslo (now Gamlebyen or Old Town) was a village or suburb outside the city borders east of Aker river.

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**Who acts:** area · **What happens:** call, be · **To what, where:** area, village · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (area), 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:97
# text = At that time the area called Oslo (now Gamlebyen or Old Town) was a village or suburb outside the city borders east of Aker river.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	Oslo	Oslo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	Gamlebyen	Gamlebyen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	suburb	suburb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
24	east	east	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Aker	Aker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | the area *not said here* |  |  |  | Oslo *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the area | a village or suburb |  |  | time | outside the city borders of Aker river; suburb *conj* | 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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