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title: It also provides port services for the Cook Strait ferries to Picton… — Wellington · tree and pragmatics
description: It also provides port services for the Cook Strait ferries to Picton in the South Island, operated by state-owned Interislander and private Bluebridge. Who acts: infrastructure. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Wellington» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Wellington, sentence 401

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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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It also provides port services for the Cook Strait ferries to Picton in the South Island, operated by state-owned Interislander and private Bluebridge.

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**Who acts:** infrastructure · **What happens:** provide, operate, own · **To what, where:** port services, Strait ferries

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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 (infrastructure), 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:401
# text = It also provides port services for the Cook Strait ferries to Picton in the South Island, operated by state-owned Interislander and private Bluebridge.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	provides	provide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Strait	Strait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ferries	ferry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Picton	Picton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	operated	operate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	Interislander	interislander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Bluebridge	Bluebridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | present | infrastructure | port services |  |  |  | for the Strait ferries to Picton in the South Island | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition service=Theme for ferry=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **operate** | participle |  | the Strait ferries to Picton in the South Island *not said here* |  |  |  | by owned Interislander and private Bluebridge | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **own** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | state *compound* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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