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title: The town's layout was originally designed by Captain William Mein Sm… — Wellington · tree and pragmatics
description: The town's layout was originally designed by Captain William Mein Smith, the first Surveyor General for the New Zealand Company, in 1840. Who acts: William. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Wellington» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Wellington, sentence 54

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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 town's layout was originally designed by Captain William Mein Smith, the first Surveyor General for the New Zealand Company, in 1840.

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**Who acts:** William · **What happens:** design · **To what, where:** layout

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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 (William), 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:54
# text = The town's layout was originally designed by Captain William Mein Smith, the first Surveyor General for the New Zealand Company, in 1840.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	layout	layout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	_
11	Mein	Mein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
16	Surveyor	Surveyor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
21	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1840	1840	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **design** | past · passive | William  Captain and the first Surveyor General for the Zealand Company | the town's layout |  |  |  | 1840 *parataxis*; originally *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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