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title: Pretoria National Botanical Garden, a botanical garden containing a… — Pretoria · tree and pragmatics
description: Pretoria National Botanical Garden, a botanical garden containing a massive collection of native flora. Who acts: botanical garden. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pretoria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pretoria, sentence 480

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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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Pretoria National Botanical Garden, a botanical garden containing a massive collection of native flora.

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**Who acts:** botanical garden · **What happens:** contain · **To what, where:** massive collection, National Botanical Garden

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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 (botanical garden), 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:480
# text = Pretoria National Botanical Garden, a botanical garden containing a massive collection of native flora.
1	Pretoria	Pretoria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Botanical	Botanical	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Garden	Garden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	botanical	botanical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	flora	flora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | gerund | a botanical garden *not said here* | a massive collection of native flora |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot collection=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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