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title: The world's best-selling video game Minecraft was created in Stockho… — Stockholm · tree and pragmatics
description: The world's best-selling video game Minecraft was created in Stockholm by Markus 'Notch' Persson in 2009, and its company Mojang is headquartered there. Who acts: Markus. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Stockholm» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Stockholm, sentence 361

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From Wikipedia, [«Stockholm»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm), 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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The world's best-selling video game Minecraft was created in Stockholm by Markus 'Notch' Persson in 2009, and its company Mojang is headquartered there.

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**Who acts:** Markus · **What happens:** sell, create, headquarter · **To what, where:** selling video game, Stockholm, company

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Stockholm». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Markus), 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:Stockholm:361
# text = The world's best-selling video game Minecraft was created in Stockholm by Markus 'Notch' Persson in 2009, and its company Mojang is headquartered there.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
7	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	Minecraft	Minecraft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Stockholm	Stockholm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Markus	Markus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Notch	notch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	Persson	Persson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	Mojang	Mojang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	headquartered	headquarter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
29	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **create** | past · passive | Markus | the world's selling video game  Minecraft |  | Stockholm |  | in 2009; Notch Persson *obl* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
| 3 | **headquarter** | present · passive |  | game's company |  | there |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «Stockholm», 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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