Amsterdam, sentence 401
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.
On 25 May 2023, in a bid to crackdown on wild tourist behaviour, the city banned cannabis smoking in public areas in and around the red light district.
Who acts: city · What happens: ban · To what, where: cannabis smoking, public areas, 25
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 (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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 25 | case |
| 2 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 2023 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 25 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bid | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bid | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bid | det |
| 8 | bid | bid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 25 | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 crackdown | case |
| 10 | crackdown | crackdown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bid | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 behaviour | case |
| 12 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 behaviour | amod |
| 13 | tourist | tourist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 behaviour | compound |
| 14 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bid | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 city | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bid | conj |
| 18 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 city | acl |
| 19 | cannabis | cannabis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 smoking | compound |
| 20 | smoking | smoking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 banned | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 areas | case |
| 22 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 areas | amod |
| 23 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 banned | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 district | case |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 around | cc |
| 26 | around | around | ADP | _ | 24 in | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 district | det |
| 28 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 district | amod |
| 29 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 district | compound |
| 30 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 banned | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 25 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ban | participle | the city not said here | cannabis smoking | public areas | in the red light district | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer smoking=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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