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title: Of the five major national newspapers, The Nikkei, The Mainichi, and… — Tokyo · tree and pragmatics
description: Of the five major national newspapers, The Nikkei, The Mainichi, and The Yomiuri are headquartered in Tokyo, while the other two, The Asahi and The Sankei, maintain head offices both in Tokyo and Osaka. Who acts: other two. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tokyo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tokyo, sentence 373

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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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Of the five major national newspapers, The Nikkei, The Mainichi, and The Yomiuri are headquartered in Tokyo, while the other two, The Asahi and The Sankei, maintain head offices both in Tokyo and Osaka.

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**Who acts:** other two · **What happens:** headquarter, maintain · **To what, where:** Nikkei, Tokyo, head offices

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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 (other two), 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:373
# text = Of the five major national newspapers, The Nikkei, The Mainichi, and The Yomiuri are headquartered in Tokyo, while the other two, The Asahi and The Sankei, maintain head offices both in Tokyo and Osaka.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Nikkei	Nikkei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Mainichi	Mainichi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Yomiuri	Yomiuri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	headquartered	headquarter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Tokyo	Tokyo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Asahi	Asahi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Sankei	Sankei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	maintain	maintain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
34	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	offices	office	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	both	both	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Tokyo	Tokyo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	Osaka	Osaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **headquarter** | present · passive |  | the Nikkei and the Mainichi and the Yomiuri |  | Tokyo |  | of the five major national newspapers | tree rules |
| 2 | **maintain** | present | the other two | head offices |  | Tokyo and Osaka |  | both *property* | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent office=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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