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title: The 1855 Wairarapa earthquake occurred on the Wairarapa Fault to the… — Wellington · tree and pragmatics
description: The 1855 Wairarapa earthquake occurred on the Wairarapa Fault to the north and east of Wellington. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Wellington» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Wellington, sentence 102

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From Wikipedia, [«Wellington»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington), 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 1855 Wairarapa earthquake occurred on the Wairarapa Fault to the north and east of Wellington.

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**What happens:** occur · **To what, where:** 1855 Wairarapa earthquake, Wairarapa Fault

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Wellington». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Wellington:102
# text = The 1855 Wairarapa earthquake occurred on the Wairarapa Fault to the north and east of Wellington.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	1855	1855	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	Wairarapa	Wairarapa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	occurred	occur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Wairarapa	Wairarapa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | participle |  | the 1855 Wairarapa earthquake *not said here* |  | the Wairarapa Fault to the north and east of Wellington |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on fault=Location |

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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, «Wellington», 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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