Amsterdam, sentence 188
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 was all the more remarkable as Amsterdam was neither the capital city nor the seat of government of the Dutch Republic, which itself was a much smaller state than Great Britain, France or the Ottoman Empire.
Who acts: This, Amsterdam, Dutch Republic · What happens: be · To what, where: capital city, smaller state
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 (This, Amsterdam, Dutch Republic), 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 | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 remarkable | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 remarkable | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 remarkable | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 remarkable | det |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 remarkable | advmod |
| 6 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 city | mark |
| 8 | Amsterdam | Amsterdam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 city | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 city | cop |
| 10 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 city | cc:preconj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 12 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 city | compound |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remarkable | advcl |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 seat | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 seat | det |
| 16 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 city | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 government | case |
| 18 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seat | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Republic | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Republic | det |
| 21 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Republic | amod |
| 22 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 seat | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 state | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 state | nsubj |
| 25 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 which | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 state | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 state | det |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 29 smaller | advmod |
| 29 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 state | amod |
| 30 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Republic | appos |
| 31 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 Britain | case |
| 32 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Britain | flat |
| 33 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 state | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 France | punct |
| 35 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Britain | conj |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 Empire | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Empire | det |
| 38 | Ottoman | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Empire | compound |
| 39 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Britain | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remarkable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | remarkable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Amsterdam | the capital city nor the seat of government of the Dutch Republic | the seat of government of the Dutch Republic conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the Dutch Republic | a smaller state | than Great Britain and France or the Ottoman Empire | tree rules |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Amsterdam», 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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