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title: The site housed the original government departments in New Zealand. — Wellington · tree and pragmatics
description: The site housed the original government departments in New Zealand. Who acts: site. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Wellington» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Wellington, sentence 69

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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 site housed the original government departments in New Zealand.

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**Who acts:** site · **What happens:** house · **To what, where:** original government departments, New Zealand

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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 (site), 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:69
# text = The site housed the original government departments in New Zealand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	housed	house	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	departments	department	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
10	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **house** | past | the site | the original government departments |  | New Zealand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent department=Value in zealand=Location |

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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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