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title: The opening ceremony took place on 4 July 2015 involving various tra… — Port Moresby · tree and pragmatics
description: The opening ceremony took place on 4 July 2015 involving various traditional dances. Who acts: opening ceremony. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Moresby» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port Moresby, sentence 138

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From Wikipedia, [«Port Moresby»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Moresby), 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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The opening ceremony took place on 4 July 2015 involving various traditional dances.

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**Who acts:** opening ceremony · **What happens:** take, involve · **To what, where:** place, various traditional dances

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port Moresby». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opening ceremony), 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:Port_Moresby:138
# text = The opening ceremony took place on 4 July 2015 involving various traditional dances.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	opening	opening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	involving	involve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the opening ceremony | place |  |  | july |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **involve** | gerund | the opening ceremony *not said here* | various traditional dances |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme |

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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, «Port Moresby», 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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