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title: There were 196,911 males and 204,936 females, giving a sex ratio of… — Wellington · tree and pragmatics
description: There were 196,911 males and 204,936 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.961 males per female. Who acts: 196,911 males. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Wellington» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Wellington, sentence 469

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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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There were 196,911 males and 204,936 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.961 males per female.

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**Who acts:** 196,911 males · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** sex ratio

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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 (196,911 males), 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:469
# text = There were 196,911 males and 204,936 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.961 males per female.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	196,911	196,911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	204,936	204,936	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ratio	ratio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	0.961	0.961	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	per	per	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | 196,911 males and 204,936 females |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | 196,911 males and 204,936 females *not said here* | a sex ratio of 0.961 males per female |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ratio=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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