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title: Narita was chosen as the site for this second airport in 1966, but l… — Tokyo · tree and pragmatics
description: Narita was chosen as the site for this second airport in 1966, but local farmers and left-wing activists who sympathized with them protested vehemently for more than a decade (the Sanrizuka Struggle), delaying the new airport's opening until 1978. Who acts: wing activists, local farmers. A sentence 
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# Tokyo, sentence 435

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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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Narita was chosen as the site for this second airport in 1966, but local farmers and left-wing activists who sympathized with them protested vehemently for more than a decade (the Sanrizuka Struggle), delaying the new airport's opening until 1978.

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**Who acts:** wing activists, local farmers · **What happens:** choose, sympathize, protest, delay · **To what, where:** Narita, 1966, opening

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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 (wing activists, local farmers), 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:435
# text = Narita was chosen as the site for this second airport in 1966, but local farmers and left-wing activists who sympathized with them protested vehemently for more than a decade (the Sanrizuka Struggle), delaying the new airport's opening until 1978.
1	Narita	Narita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1966	1966	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
15	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	activists	activist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sympathized	sympathize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	protested	protest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	vehemently	vehemently	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	32	advmod	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	decade	decade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Sanrizuka	Sanrizuka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Struggle	Struggle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	delaying	delay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	's	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
45	until	until	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	1978	1978	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past · passive |  | Narita |  | 1966 |  | as the site; for this second airport | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for airport=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **sympathize** | past | wing activists |  |  |  |  | with farmers *= farmer* | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with they=Stimulus |
| 3 | **protest** *speech: disagree* | past | local farmers and wing activists |  |  |  | decade | vehemently *property* | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **delay** | gerund | local farmers and wing activists *not said here* | the new airport's opening |  |  | until 1978 |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent opening=Source |

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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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