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title: The function of the "district governments", however, is not directly… — Tallinn · tree and pragmatics
description: The function of the "district governments", however, is not directly governing, but just limited to providing advice to the city government and the city council on issues related to the administration of respective districts. Who acts: function. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tallinn» with its dependenc
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# Tallinn, sentence 118

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From Wikipedia, [«Tallinn»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn), 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 function of the "district governments", however, is not directly governing, but just limited to providing advice to the city government and the city council on issues related to the administration of respective districts.

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**Who acts:** function · **What happens:** not govern, provide, administer · **To what, where:** advice, city government, issues, respective districts

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tallinn». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (function), 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:Tallinn:118
# text = The function of the "district governments", however, is not directly governing, but just limited to providing advice to the city government and the city council on issues related to the administration of respective districts.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	function	function	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	governments	government	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	however	however	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	governing	govern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	providing	provide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	issues	issue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
33	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	respective	respective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **govern** | present · progressive | the function of the district governments |  |  |  |  | directly, however *property* | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **provide** | gerund | the function of the district governments *not said here* | advice | the city government and the city council | issues |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Theme to government=Recipient |
| 3 | **administer** |  |  | respective districts |  |  |  |  | nom administration «act 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, «Tallinn», 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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