Amsterdam, sentence 400
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.
One ad shows young men being handcuffed by police and is part of a new campaign to clean up the city's reputation.
Who acts: One ad, police, city · What happens: show, handcuff, be, clean up, repute · To what, where: young men, part, reputation · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (One ad, police, city), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 ad | nummod |
| 2 | ad | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 handcuffed | nsubj |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 handcuffed | aux:pass |
| 7 | handcuffed | handcuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shows | ccomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 police | case |
| 9 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 handcuffed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 part | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 part | cop |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 handcuffed | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 campaign | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 campaign | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 campaign | amod |
| 16 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 part | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 clean | mark |
| 18 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 handcuffed | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 clean | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reputation | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 city | case |
| 23 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clean | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | One ad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | handcuff | gerund · passive | police | young men | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | police not said here | part | of a new campaign | tree rules | |||
| 4 | clean up | to-infinitive | police not said here | the city's reputation | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent reputation=Patient | ||||
| 5 | repute | the city | nom reputation «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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