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title: When he became shōgun, the de facto ruler of the country, in 1603, t… — Tokyo · tree and pragmatics
description: When he became shōgun, the de facto ruler of the country, in 1603, the whole country came to be ruled by Edo. Who acts: clan, whole country, Edo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tokyo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tokyo, sentence 42

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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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When he became shōgun, the de facto ruler of the country, in 1603, the whole country came to be ruled by Edo.

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**Who acts:** clan, whole country, Edo · **What happens:** become, come, rule · **To what, where:** shōgun, 1603

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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 (clan, whole country, Edo), 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:42
# text = When he became shōgun, the de facto ruler of the country, in 1603, the whole country came to be ruled by Edo.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
4	shōgun	shōgun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
8	facto	facto	X	FW	_	9	compound	_	_
9	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1603	1603	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Edo	Edo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | clan | shōgun |  |  |  | in 1603 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1603=Result |
| 2 | **come** | past | the whole country |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rule** | to-infinitive · passive | Edo |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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