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title: Wellington is one of New Zealand's chief seaports and serves both do… — Wellington · tree and pragmatics
description: Wellington is one of New Zealand's chief seaports and serves both domestic and international shipping. Who acts: Wellington. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Wellington» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Wellington, sentence 16

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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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Wellington is one of New Zealand's chief seaports and serves both domestic and international shipping.

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**Who acts:** Wellington · **What happens:** be, serve · **To what, where:** one, domestic shipping

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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 (Wellington), 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:16
# text = Wellington is one of New Zealand's chief seaports and serves both domestic and international shipping.
1	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	seaports	seaport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	serves	serve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc:preconj	_	_
13	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	shipping	shipping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Wellington | one |  |  |  | of New Zealand's chief seaports | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | present | Wellington *not said here* | domestic shipping |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shipping=Attribute |

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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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