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title: In June 2009, as the result of financial pressures from the global r… — Prague · tree and pragmatics
description: In June 2009, as the result of financial pressures from the global recession, Prague's officials chose to cancel the city's planned bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics. Who acts: officials, city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Prague» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Prague, sentence 158

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From Wikipedia, [«Prague»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague), 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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In June 2009, as the result of financial pressures from the global recession, Prague's officials chose to cancel the city's planned bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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**Who acts:** officials, city · **What happens:** choose, cancel, plan, result, bid · **To what, where:** planned bid, financial pressures

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Prague». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (officials, city), 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:Prague:158
# text = In June 2009, as the result of financial pressures from the global recession, Prague's officials chose to cancel the city's planned bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
3	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	financial	financial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pressures	pressure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	global	global	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	recession	recession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	Prague	Prague	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	cancel	cancel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	bid	bid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Olympics	Olympic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | Prague's officials |  |  |  | june |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cancel** | to-infinitive | Prague's officials *not said here* | the city's planned bid |  |  |  | for the 2020 Summer Olympics | tree rules |
| 3 | **plan** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **result** |  |  | financial pressures from the global recession |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **bid** |  | the city |  |  |  |  | for the 2020 Summer Olympics | nom bid «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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, «Prague», 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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