Amsterdam, sentence 251
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.
A large influx of foreigners of many religions came to 17th-century Amsterdam, in particular Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal, Huguenots from France, Lutherans, Mennonites, as well as Protestants from across the Netherlands.
Who acts: large influx · What happens: come · To what, where: 17th century Amsterdam
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 (large influx), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 influx | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 influx | amod |
| 3 | influx | influx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 foreigners | case |
| 5 | foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 influx | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 religions | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 religions | amod |
| 8 | religions | religion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 foreigners | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Amsterdam | case |
| 11 | 17th | 17th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 14 Amsterdam | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 17th | punct |
| 13 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Amsterdam | compound |
| 14 | Amsterdam | Amsterdam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Jews | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Jews | case |
| 17 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Jews | amod |
| 18 | Sephardic | Sephardic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Jews | compound |
| 19 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 came | advcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 Spain | case |
| 21 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Jews | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Portugal | cc |
| 23 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Spain | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Huguenots | punct |
| 25 | Huguenots | huguenot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Jews | flat |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 France | case |
| 27 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Huguenots | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Lutherans | punct |
| 29 | Lutherans | Lutheran | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 France | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Mennonites | punct |
| 31 | Mennonites | mennonite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 Huguenots | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Protestants | punct |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 36 Protestants | cc |
| 34 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 as | fixed |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 as | fixed |
| 36 | Protestants | Protestant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 Huguenots | appos |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 Netherlands | case |
| 38 | across | across | ADP | _ | 40 Netherlands | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Netherlands | det |
| 40 | Netherlands | Netherlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Protestants | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a large influx of foreigners of many religions | 17th century Amsterdam | particular Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal advcl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to amsterdam=Initial_Location |
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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