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title: They were registered with the Transvaal Provincial Administration in… — Pretoria · tree and pragmatics
description: They were registered with the Transvaal Provincial Administration in March 1953 and at the Bureau of Heraldry in May 1968. Who acts: Provincial Administration. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pretoria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pretoria, sentence 285

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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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They were registered with the Transvaal Provincial Administration in March 1953 and at the Bureau of Heraldry in May 1968.

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**Who acts:** Provincial Administration · **What happens:** register · **To what, where:** arms

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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: who acts (Provincial Administration), 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:285
# text = They were registered with the Transvaal Provincial Administration in March 1953 and at the Bureau of Heraldry in May 1968.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	registered	register	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Transvaal	Transvaal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Provincial	Provincial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Administration	Administration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	1953	1953	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Bureau	Bureau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Heraldry	Heraldry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
20	1968	1968	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **register** | past · passive | the Provincial Administration | arms *= arm* |  |  | march; may |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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, «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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