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title: Te Ngākau Civic Square is surrounded by the Town Hall and council of… — Wellington · tree and pragmatics
description: Te Ngākau Civic Square is surrounded by the Town Hall and council offices, the Michael Fowler Centre, the Wellington Central Library, the City-to-Sea Bridge, and the City Gallery. Who acts: Town Hall. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Wellington» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Wellington, sentence 219

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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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Te Ngākau Civic Square is surrounded by the Town Hall and council offices, the Michael Fowler Centre, the Wellington Central Library, the City-to-Sea Bridge, and the City Gallery.

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**Who acts:** Town Hall · **What happens:** surround · **To what, where:** Ngākau Civic Square

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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 (Town Hall), 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:219
# text = Te Ngākau Civic Square is surrounded by the Town Hall and council offices, the Michael Fowler Centre, the Wellington Central Library, the City-to-Sea Bridge, and the City Gallery.
1	Te	te	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Ngākau	Ngākau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Civic	Civic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Square	Square	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	offices	office	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Fowler	Fowler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Centre	Centre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	Central	Central	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Library	Library	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
26	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Gallery	Gallery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | present · passive | the Town Hall and council offices and the Fowler Centre and the Wellington Central Library and the Sea Bridge  City | Ngākau Civic Square |  |  |  | the City Gallery *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |

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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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