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title: The city's location close to the mouth of the narrow Cook Strait lea… — Wellington · tree and pragmatics
description: The city's location close to the mouth of the narrow Cook Strait leaves it vulnerable to strong gales, leading to the nickname of "Windy Wellington". Who acts: location. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Wellington» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Wellington, sentence 39

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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 city's location close to the mouth of the narrow Cook Strait leaves it vulnerable to strong gales, leading to the nickname of "Windy Wellington".

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**Who acts:** location · **What happens:** leave, lead, nickname · **To what, where:** mouth, Windy Wellington

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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 (location), 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:39
# text = The city's location close to the mouth of the narrow Cook Strait leaves it vulnerable to strong gales, leading to the nickname of "Windy Wellington".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Strait	Strait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	vulnerable	vulnerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gales	gale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	nickname	nickname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Windy	Windy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | the city's location | mouth |  |  |  | vulnerable *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund | the city's location *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the nickname of Windy Wellington | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to nickname=Patient |
| 3 | **nickname** |  |  | Windy Wellington |  |  |  |  | nom nickname «communication 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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