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title: It has a staff of approximately 3,000 technical and scientific resea… — Pretoria · tree and pragmatics
description: It has a staff of approximately 3,000 technical and scientific researchers, often working in multi-disciplinary teams. Who acts: organisation, 3,000 technical researchers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pretoria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pretoria, sentence 340

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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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It has a staff of approximately 3,000 technical and scientific researchers, often working in multi-disciplinary teams.

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**Who acts:** organisation, 3,000 technical researchers · **What happens:** have, work · **To what, where:** staff

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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 (organisation, 3,000 technical researchers), 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:340
# text = It has a staff of approximately 3,000 technical and scientific researchers, often working in multi-disciplinary teams.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	3,000	3000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
8	technical	technical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	researchers	researcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	multi-disciplinary	multi-disciplinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | organisation | a staff of 3,000 technical researchers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Patient |
| 2 | **work** | gerund | 3,000 technical researchers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in multi-disciplinary teams; often *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in team=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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