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title: English was spoken by 96.3%, Māori language by 2.7%, Samoan by 1.8%… — Wellington · tree and pragmatics
description: English was spoken by 96.3%, Māori language by 2.7%, Samoan by 1.8% and other languages by 23.5%. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Wellington» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Wellington, sentence 201

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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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English was spoken by 96.3%, Māori language by 2.7%, Samoan by 1.8% and other languages by 23.5%.

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**What happens:** speak · **To what, where:** English · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:201
# text = English was spoken by 96.3%, Māori language by 2.7%, Samoan by 1.8% and other languages by 23.5%.
1	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	96.3	96.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Māori	Māori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	2.7	2.7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Samoan	Samoan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	1.8	1.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	23.5	23.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | English |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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