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title: In literature, the city has featured since the Edo period, while the… — Tokyo · tree and pragmatics
description: In literature, the city has featured since the Edo period, while the modern city appears in the works of authors such as Natsume Sōseki and Mori Ōgai, who depicted life in Tokyo during the industrialization period in famous novels such as Sanshirō (1908) and The Wild Geese (1911). Who acts: city, mo
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# Tokyo, sentence 516

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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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In literature, the city has featured since the Edo period, while the modern city appears in the works of authors such as Natsume Sōseki and Mori Ōgai, who depicted life in Tokyo during the industrialization period in famous novels such as Sanshirō (1908) and The Wild Geese (1911).

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**Who acts:** city, modern city, Natsume, authors · **What happens:** feature, appear, depict, work · **To what, where:** literature, works, life, Tokyo

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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 (city, modern city, Natsume, authors), 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:516
# text = In literature, the city has featured since the Edo period, while the modern city appears in the works of authors such as Natsume Sōseki and Mori Ōgai, who depicted life in Tokyo during the industrialization period in famous novels such as Sanshirō (1908) and The Wild Geese (1911).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	featured	feature	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	since	since	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Edo	Edo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	authors	author	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	Natsume	Natsume	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	Sōseki	Sōseki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Mori	Mori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	Ōgai	Ōgai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	depicted	depict	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
33	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Tokyo	Tokyo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	during	during	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	industrialization	industrialization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	novels	novel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
43	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	45	case	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	fixed	_	_
45	Sanshirō	Sanshirō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	1908	1908	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	47	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	52	flat	_	_
52	Geese	Geese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
53	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	1911	1911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	52	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feature** | present · perfect | the city |  |  | literature | since the Edo period |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | present | the modern city |  |  | the works of authors such Natsume and Mori |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in work=Location |
| 3 | **depict** | past | Natsume and Mori | life |  | Tokyo | during the industrialization period | in famous novels such Sanshirō and the Wild Geese | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 4 | **work** |  | authors such Natsume and Mori |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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