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title: Pretoria's nickname "the Jacaranda City" comes from the around 70,00… — Pretoria · tree and pragmatics
description: Pretoria's nickname "the Jacaranda City" comes from the around 70,000 jacaranda trees that grow in Pretoria and decorate the city each October with their purple blossoms. Who acts: nickname, 70,000 jacaranda trees, Pretoria. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pretoria» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Pretoria, sentence 91

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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's nickname "the Jacaranda City" comes from the around 70,000 jacaranda trees that grow in Pretoria and decorate the city each October with their purple blossoms.

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**Who acts:** nickname, 70,000 jacaranda trees, Pretoria · **What happens:** come, grow, decorate, nickname · **To what, where:** around, Pretoria, city

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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 (nickname, 70,000 jacaranda trees, Pretoria), 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:91
# text = Pretoria's nickname "the Jacaranda City" comes from the around 70,000 jacaranda trees that grow in Pretoria and decorate the city each October with their purple blossoms.
1	Pretoria	Pretoria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	nickname	nickname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Jacaranda	Jacaranda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	around	around	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	70,000	70,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	jacaranda	jacaranda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Pretoria	Pretoria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	decorate	decorate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Pretoria's nickname |  |  | the around  70,000 jacaranda trees |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from around=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **grow** | present | 70,000 jacaranda trees |  |  | Pretoria |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pretoria=Location |
| 3 | **decorate** | infinitive | 70,000 jacaranda trees *not said here* | the city |  |  | october | with city's purple blossoms | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent city=Destination with blossom=Theme |
| 4 | **nickname** |  | Pretoria |  |  |  |  |  | nom nickname «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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