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title: This bell was rung to the point of breakage, but it can still be fou… — Sucre · tree and pragmatics
description: This bell was rung to the point of breakage, but it can still be found in the Basilica today: it is one of the most precious relics of the city. Who acts: bell. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sucre» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sucre, sentence 36

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From Wikipedia, [«Sucre»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucre), 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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This bell was rung to the point of breakage, but it can still be found in the Basilica today: it is one of the most precious relics of the city.

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**Who acts:** bell · **What happens:** ring, find, be, point · **To what, where:** bell, Basilica, one, breakage

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sucre». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bell), 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:Sucre:36
# text = This bell was rung to the point of breakage, but it can still be found in the Basilica today: it is one of the most precious relics of the city.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	rung	ring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	breakage	breakage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Basilica	Basilica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	parataxis	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	28	advmod	_	_
28	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	relics	relic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | past · passive |  | this bell |  |  |  | to the point of breakage | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | can · passive |  | bell |  | the Basilica | still; today |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present | bell | one |  |  |  | of the precious relics of the city | tree rules |
| 4 | **point** |  |  | breakage |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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, «Sucre», 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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