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title: The 1923 earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 7.9, killed more… — Tokyo · tree and pragmatics
description: The 1923 earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 7.9, killed more than 100,000 people, the last time the urban area was directly hit. Who acts: 1923 earthquake. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tokyo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tokyo, sentence 272

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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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The 1923 earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 7.9, killed more than 100,000 people, the last time the urban area was directly hit.

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**Who acts:** 1923 earthquake · **What happens:** estimate, kill, hit · **To what, where:** 100,000 people, urban area

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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 (1923 earthquake), 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:272
# text = The 1923 earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 7.9, killed more than 100,000 people, the last time the urban area was directly hit.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	1923	1923	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	estimated	estimate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	magnitude	magnitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	7.9	7.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	15	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	100,000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **estimate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **kill** | past | the 1923 earthquake and a estimated magnitude of 7.9 | 100,000 people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 3 | **hit** | past · passive |  | the urban area |  |  | time | directly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |

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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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