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title: They have also increased the footage of parks, and encourage citizen… — Tokyo · tree and pragmatics
description: They have also increased the footage of parks, and encourage citizens to get involved in pond cleaning, tree planting, and working as park guides. Who acts: citizens. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tokyo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tokyo, sentence 234

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From Wikipedia, [«Tokyo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo), 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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They have also increased the footage of parks, and encourage citizens to get involved in pond cleaning, tree planting, and working as park guides.

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**Who acts:** citizens · **What happens:** increase, encourage, get, work · **To what, where:** trees, citizens

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tokyo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (citizens), 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:Tokyo:234
# text = They have also increased the footage of parks, and encourage citizens to get involved in pond cleaning, tree planting, and working as park guides.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	footage	footage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	encourage	encourage	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	involved	involved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	planting	planting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	guides	guide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | present · perfect · passive |  | trees *= tree* |  |  |  | the footage of parks *obj* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: subject=Patient footage=Extent |
| 2 | **encourage** | infinitive |  | citizens |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent citizen=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | citizens *not said here* |  |  |  |  | involved *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as park guides | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as guide=Attribute |

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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, «Tokyo», 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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