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title: While masonry and structural steel have subsequently been used in bu… — Wellington · tree and pragmatics
description: While masonry and structural steel have subsequently been used in building construction, especially for office buildings, timber framing remains the primary structural component of almost all residential construction. Who acts: timber framing. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Wellington» with its dependen
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# Wellington, sentence 113

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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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While masonry and structural steel have subsequently been used in building construction, especially for office buildings, timber framing remains the primary structural component of almost all residential construction.

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**Who acts:** timber framing · **What happens:** use, remain, compose · **To what, where:** masonry, building construction, primary structural component, residential construction

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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: who acts (timber framing), 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:113
# text = While masonry and structural steel have subsequently been used in building construction, especially for office buildings, timber framing remains the primary structural component of almost all residential construction.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	masonry	masonry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	structural	structural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	timber	timber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	framing	framing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	structural	structural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	component	component	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
29	residential	residential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · perfect · passive |  | masonry and structural steel |  | building construction |  | for office buildings; subsequently *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for building=Eventuality |
| 2 | **remain** | present | timber framing | the primary structural component of all residential construction |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme component=Attribute |
| 3 | **compose** |  |  | all residential construction |  |  |  |  | nom component «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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