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title: Some have proposed changing the official name from Pretoria to Tshwa… — Pretoria · tree and pragmatics
description: Some have proposed changing the official name from Pretoria to Tshwane, which has caused some public controversy. Who acts: Tshwane. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pretoria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pretoria, sentence 9

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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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Some have proposed changing the official name from Pretoria to Tshwane, which has caused some public controversy.

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**Who acts:** Tshwane · **What happens:** propose, change, cause · **To what, where:** Some, official name, Tshwane, Pretoria, public controversy

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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 (Tshwane), 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:9
# text = Some have proposed changing the official name from Pretoria to Tshwane, which has caused some public controversy.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Pretoria	Pretoria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Tshwane	Tshwane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	controversy	controversy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | present · perfect · passive |  | Some |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | gerund |  | the official name | Tshwane | Pretoria |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cause** | present · perfect | Tshwane | some public controversy |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition controversy=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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