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title: The genre is closely tied to the Spitori culture and Pretoria street… — Pretoria · tree and pragmatics
description: The genre is closely tied to the Spitori culture and Pretoria street life. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pretoria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pretoria, sentence 208

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From Wikipedia, [«Pretoria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretoria), 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 genre is closely tied to the Spitori culture and Pretoria street life.

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**What happens:** tie · **To what, where:** genre

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Pretoria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Pretoria:208
# text = The genre is closely tied to the Spitori culture and Pretoria street life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	genre	genre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Spitori	Spitori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	Pretoria	Pretoria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | present · passive |  | the genre |  |  |  | to the Spitori culture and Pretoria street life; closely *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to culture=Co-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, «Pretoria», 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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