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title: The Executive Wing of New Zealand Parliament Buildings, on the corne… — Wellington · tree and pragmatics
description: The Executive Wing of New Zealand Parliament Buildings, on the corner of Lambton Quay and Molesworth Street, was constructed between 1969 and 1981 and is commonly referred to as the Beehive. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Wellington» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Wellington, sentence 221

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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 Executive Wing of New Zealand Parliament Buildings, on the corner of Lambton Quay and Molesworth Street, was constructed between 1969 and 1981 and is commonly referred to as the Beehive.

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**What happens:** construct, refer · **To what, where:** Executive Wing

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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:221
# text = The Executive Wing of New Zealand Parliament Buildings, on the corner of Lambton Quay and Molesworth Street, was constructed between 1969 and 1981 and is commonly referred to as the Beehive.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Executive	executive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Quay	Quay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	Molesworth	Molesworth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1969	1969	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	1981	1981	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	obl	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Beehive	Beehive	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **construct** | past · passive |  | the Executive Wing of Zealand Parliament Buildings |  |  |  | between 1969 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **refer** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as the Beehive; commonly *property* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.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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