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title: The wider metropolitan area for Wellington encompasses areas adminis… — Wellington · tree and pragmatics
description: The wider metropolitan area for Wellington encompasses areas administered by four local authorities: Wellington City itself, on the peninsula between Cook Strait and Wellington Harbour; Porirua City on Porirua Harbour to the north, notable for its large Māori and Pasifika communities; and Lower Hutt
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# Wellington, sentence 457

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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 wider metropolitan area for Wellington encompasses areas administered by four local authorities: Wellington City itself, on the peninsula between Cook Strait and Wellington Harbour; Porirua City on Porirua Harbour to the north, notable for its large Māori and Pasifika communities; and Lower Hutt City and Upper Hutt City, largely suburban areas to the northeast, together known as the Hutt Valley.

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**Who acts:** wider metropolitan area · **What happens:** encompass, administer, know · **To what, where:** areas, peninsula

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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 (wider metropolitan area), 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:457
# text = The wider metropolitan area for Wellington encompasses areas administered by four local authorities: Wellington City itself, on the peninsula between Cook Strait and Wellington Harbour; Porirua City on Porirua Harbour to the north, notable for its large Māori and Pasifika communities; and Lower Hutt City and Upper Hutt City, largely suburban areas to the northeast, together known as the Hutt Valley.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
3	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	encompasses	encompass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	administered	administer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Strait	Strait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	Harbour	Harbour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	Porirua	Porirua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	Porirua	Porirua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	notable	notable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
41	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
42	Māori	Māori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	Pasifika	Pasifika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	Lower	Lower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
49	Hutt	Hutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	Upper	Upper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
53	Hutt	Hutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	flat	_	_
54	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
57	suburban	suburban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	_
59	to	to	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	together	together	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
64	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
65	as	as	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
67	Hutt	Hutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	_
68	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encompass** | present | the wider metropolitan area for Wellington | areas |  |  |  | Porirua City on Porirua Harbour to the north *obl*; Lower Hutt City  suburban areas to the northeast and Upper *obl* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot area=Theme |
| 2 | **administer** | participle |  | areas *not said here* |  | the peninsula between Cook Strait and Wellington |  | four local authorities  Wellington City  area *obl:agent* | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as the Hutt Valley; together *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as valley=Attribute |

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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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