Amsterdam, sentence 153
From Wikipedia, «Amsterdam», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
This urban renewal and expansion of the traditional centre of the city—with the construction of artificial islands of the new eastern IJburg neighbourhood—is part of the Structural Vision Amsterdam 2040 initiative.
Who acts: urban renewal · What happens: be, renew, construct · To what, where: part, traditional centre, artificial islands
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Amsterdam». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (urban renewal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 renewal | det |
| 2 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 renewal | amod |
| 3 | renewal | renewal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 part | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 expansion | cc |
| 5 | expansion | expansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 renewal | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 centre | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 centre | det |
| 8 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 centre | amod |
| 9 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 renewal | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 city | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 centre | nmod |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 construction | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 construction | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 construction | det |
| 16 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 city | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 islands | case |
| 18 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 islands | amod |
| 19 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 construction | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 neighbourhood | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 neighbourhood | det |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 neighbourhood | amod |
| 23 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 neighbourhood | amod |
| 24 | IJburg | IJburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 neighbourhood | compound |
| 25 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 islands | nmod |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 renewal | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 part | cop |
| 28 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 initiative | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 initiative | det |
| 31 | Structural | Structural | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Amsterdam | compound |
| 32 | Vision | Vision | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Amsterdam | compound |
| 33 | Amsterdam | Amsterdam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 initiative | compound |
| 34 | 2040 | 2040 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 Amsterdam | flat |
| 35 | initiative | initiative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 part | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this urban renewal of the traditional centre of the city and the construction of artificial islands of the new eastern IJburg neighbourhood and expansion | part | of the Amsterdam initiative | tree rules | |||
| 2 | renew | the traditional centre of the city and the construction of artificial islands of the new eastern IJburg neighbourhood | nom renewal «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | construct | artificial islands of the new eastern IJburg neighbourhood | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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