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title: Four electrified suburban lines radiate from Wellington railway stat… — Wellington · tree and pragmatics
description: Four electrified suburban lines radiate from Wellington railway station to the outer suburbs to the north of Wellington – the Johnsonville Line through the hillside suburbs north of central Wellington; the Kāpiti Line along the NIMT to Waikanae on the Kāpiti Coast via Porirua and Paraparaumu; the Me
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# Wellington, sentence 397

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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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Four electrified suburban lines radiate from Wellington railway station to the outer suburbs to the north of Wellington – the Johnsonville Line through the hillside suburbs north of central Wellington; the Kāpiti Line along the NIMT to Waikanae on the Kāpiti Coast via Porirua and Paraparaumu; the Melling Line to Lower Hutt via Petone; and the Hutt Valley Line along the Wairarapa Line via Waterloo and Taitā to Upper Hutt.

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**Who acts:** Four · **What happens:** electrify · **To what, where:** suburban lines, hillside suburbs

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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 (Four), 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:397
# text = Four electrified suburban lines radiate from Wellington railway station to the outer suburbs to the north of Wellington – the Johnsonville Line through the hillside suburbs north of central Wellington; the Kāpiti Line along the NIMT to Waikanae on the Kāpiti Coast via Porirua and Paraparaumu; the Melling Line to Lower Hutt via Petone; and the Hutt Valley Line along the Wairarapa Line via Waterloo and Taitā to Upper Hutt.
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	electrified	electrify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	suburban	suburban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	radiate	radiate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Johnsonville	Johnsonville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Line	Line	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
27	north	north	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Kāpiti	Kāpiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
35	along	along	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	NIMT	NIMT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Waikanae	Waikanae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Kāpiti	Kāpiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Coast	Coast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
44	via	via	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Porirua	Porirua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	Paraparaumu	Paraparaumu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	Melling	melling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	Line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	Lower	Lower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
54	Hutt	Hutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	flat	_	_
55	via	via	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	Petone	Petone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	61	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	Hutt	Hutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
62	Line	line	X	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
63	along	along	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
65	Wairarapa	Wairarapa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	66	compound	_	_
66	Line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	_
67	via	via	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	Waterloo	Waterloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	66	nmod	_	_
69	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
70	Taitā	Taitā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	68	conj	_	_
71	to	to	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
72	Upper	Upper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	66	nmod	_	_
73	Hutt	Hutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	72	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **electrify** | past | Four | suburban lines |  | the hillside suburbs |  | to the outer suburbs; to the north of Wellington; the Johnsonville Line *obl*; the Kāpiti Line along the NIMT to Waikanae on the Kāpiti Coast via Porirua and Paraparaumu *obl*; radiate Wellington railway station *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus line=Experiencer station=Result |

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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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