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title: Theatre is by far the most popular form of performing art, and theat… — Sofia · tree and pragmatics
description: Theatre is by far the most popular form of performing art, and theatrical venues are among the most visited, second only to cinemas. Who acts: Theatre, popular form. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sofia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sofia, sentence 259

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From Wikipedia, [«Sofia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia), 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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Theatre is by far the most popular form of performing art, and theatrical venues are among the most visited, second only to cinemas.

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**Who acts:** Theatre, popular form · **What happens:** be, perform, visit · **To what, where:** popular form, art, theatrical venues

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sofia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theatre, popular form), 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:Sofia:259
# text = Theatre is by far the most popular form of performing art, and theatrical venues are among the most visited, second only to cinemas.
1	Theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	performing	perform	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	theatrical	theatrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	venues	venue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	visited	visit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	second	second	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	advmod	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	cinemas	cinema	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Theatre | the popular form |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **perform** | gerund | the popular form *not said here* | art |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Theme |
| 3 | **visit** | present · passive |  | theatrical venues |  |  |  | cinemas *conj* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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, «Sofia», 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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