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title: In 1935, the creek was drained, and the complex's foundations were c… — Suva · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1935, the creek was drained, and the complex's foundations were created by driving more than five kilometres of reinforced concrete pilings into its bed. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suva» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Suva, sentence 69

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From Wikipedia, [«Suva»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suva), 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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In 1935, the creek was drained, and the complex's foundations were created by driving more than five kilometres of reinforced concrete pilings into its bed.

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**What happens:** drain, create, drive, reinforce · **To what, where:** creek, 1935, foundations, five kilometres, bed

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Suva». 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:Suva:69
# text = In 1935, the creek was drained, and the complex's foundations were created by driving more than five kilometres of reinforced concrete pilings into its bed.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1935	1935	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	creek	creek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	drained	drain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	complex	complex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	foundations	foundation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	20	advmod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	reinforced	reinforce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
24	concrete	concrete	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	pilings	piling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drain** | past · passive |  | the creek |  | 1935 |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **create** | past · passive |  | the complex's foundations |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **drive** | gerund |  | five kilometres of reinforced concrete pilings |  | creek's bed |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme into bed=Trajectory |
| 4 | **reinforce** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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, «Suva», 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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