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title: The 1840 settlers constructed their first homes at Petone (which the… — Wellington · tree and pragmatics
description: The 1840 settlers constructed their first homes at Petone (which they called Britannia for a time) on the flat area at the mouth of the Hutt River. Who acts: 1840 settlers, settlers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Wellington» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Wellington, sentence 52

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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 1840 settlers constructed their first homes at Petone (which they called Britannia for a time) on the flat area at the mouth of the Hutt River.

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**Who acts:** 1840 settlers, settlers · **What happens:** construct, call · **To what, where:** first homes, Petone, flat area · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (1840 settlers, settlers), 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:52
# text = The 1840 settlers constructed their first homes at Petone (which they called Britannia for a time) on the flat area at the mouth of the Hutt River.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	1840	1840	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	constructed	construct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Petone	Petone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	Britannia	Britannia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Hutt	Hutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **construct** | past | the 1840 settlers | settlers's first homes |  | Petone |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Result |
| 2 | **call** | past | settlers *= settler* |  |  | the flat area at the mouth of the Hutt River | time | which *obj*; Britannia *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |

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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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