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title: They rarely cause much damage (sometimes a few injuries) as they are… — Tokyo · tree and pragmatics
description: They rarely cause much damage (sometimes a few injuries) as they are either too small or far away, as quakes tend to dance around the region. Who acts: residents, quakes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tokyo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tokyo, sentence 269

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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 rarely cause much damage (sometimes a few injuries) as they are either too small or far away, as quakes tend to dance around the region.

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**Who acts:** residents, quakes · **What happens:** cause, be, tend, dance · **To what, where:** much damage, region

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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 (residents, quakes), 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:269
# text = They rarely cause much damage (sometimes a few injuries) as they are either too small or far away, as quakes tend to dance around the region.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc:preconj	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	quakes	quake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	tend	tend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	around	around	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present | residents *= resident* | much damage |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition damage=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | residents *= resident* |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tend** | present | quakes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dance** | to-infinitive | quakes *not said here* |  |  | the region |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around region=Location |

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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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