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title: Since 2015, the National Art Gallery, located in the former royal pa… — Sofia · tree and pragmatics
description: Since 2015, the National Art Gallery, located in the former royal palace, the National Gallery for Foreign Art (NGFA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art – Sofia Arsenal were merged to form the National Gallery. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sofia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sofia, sentence 271

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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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Since 2015, the National Art Gallery, located in the former royal palace, the National Gallery for Foreign Art (NGFA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art – Sofia Arsenal were merged to form the National Gallery.

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**What happens:** locate, merge, form · **To what, where:** National Art Gallery, former royal palace, National Gallery

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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: 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:271
# text = Since 2015, the National Art Gallery, located in the former royal palace, the National Gallery for Foreign Art (NGFA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art – Sofia Arsenal were merged to form the National Gallery.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Gallery	Gallery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Gallery	Gallery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Foreign	Foreign	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	NGFA	NGFA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Museum	Museum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Contemporary	Contemporary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
31	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	Sofia	Sofia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Arsenal	Arsenal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	merged	merge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Gallery	Gallery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | participle |  | the National Art Gallery and the National Gallery for Foreign Art and the Museum of Contemporary and Sofia Arsenal *not said here* |  | the former royal palace |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **merge** | past · passive |  | the National Art Gallery and the National Gallery for Foreign Art and the Museum of Contemporary and Sofia Arsenal |  |  | since 2015 |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** | to-infinitive |  | the National Gallery |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gallery=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, «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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