Amsterdam, sentence 4
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.
Located in the Dutch province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", for its large number of canals, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
What happens: locate, refer · To what, where: Dutch province, 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: 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 | Located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 province | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 province | det |
| 4 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 province | amod |
| 5 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Located | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Holland | case |
| 7 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Holland | compound |
| 8 | Holland | Holland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 province | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 referred | punct |
| 10 | Amsterdam | Amsterdam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 referred | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 referred | aux:pass |
| 12 | colloquially | colloquially | ADV | _ | 13 referred | advmod |
| 13 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Located | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 referred | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 Venice | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Venice | det |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Venice | punct |
| 18 | Venice | Venice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 referred | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 North | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 North | det |
| 21 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Venice | nmod |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Venice | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 number | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 number | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 number | nmod:poss |
| 26 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 number | amod |
| 27 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Venice | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 canals | case |
| 29 | canals | canal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 number | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Site | punct |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 Site | advmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 Site | det |
| 33 | UNESCO | UNESCO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Heritage | compound |
| 34 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Heritage | compound |
| 35 | Heritage | Heritage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Site | compound |
| 36 | Site | Site | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 canals | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Located | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | participle | the Dutch province of North Holland | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | refer | present · passive | Amsterdam | as the Venice of the North and Dam's large number of canals a Heritage Site; colloquially property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
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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