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title: Several national government departments also have their head offices… — Pretoria · tree and pragmatics
description: Several national government departments also have their head offices in the central business district, including the Department of Health, Basic Education, Transport, Higher Education and Training, Sport and Recreation, Justice and Constitutional Development, Public Service and Administration, Water
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# Pretoria, sentence 86

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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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Several national government departments also have their head offices in the central business district, including the Department of Health, Basic Education, Transport, Higher Education and Training, Sport and Recreation, Justice and Constitutional Development, Public Service and Administration, Water and Environmental Affairs and the National Treasury.

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**Who acts:** Several national government departments · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** head offices, central business district

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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 (Several national government departments), 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:86
# text = Several national government departments also have their head offices in the central business district, including the Department of Health, Basic Education, Transport, Higher Education and Training, Sport and Recreation, Justice and Constitutional Development, Public Service and Administration, Water and Environmental Affairs and the National Treasury.
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	departments	department	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	offices	office	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	including	including	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Health	Health	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Basic	Basic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Education	Education	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Transport	Transport	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Higher	High	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Education	Education	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	Training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	Recreation	recreation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Justice	Justice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	Constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Development	Development	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	Public	Public	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Service	Service	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	Administration	Administration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	Environmental	environmental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	Affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	Treasury	Treasury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Several national government departments | departments's head offices |  | the central business district and Sport and Recreation |  | Justice and Constitutional Development and Environmental Affairs and the National Treasury *parataxis* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=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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