Amsterdam, sentence 483
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.
The 1949 song "Aan de Amsterdamse grachten" ("On the canals of Amsterdam") was performed and recorded by many artists, including John Kraaijkamp Sr.; the best-known version is probably that by Wim Sonneveld (1962).
Who acts: many artists, known version · What happens: perform, record, know, be · To what, where: song Aan grachten, that
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 (many artists, known version), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 song | det |
| 2 | 1949 | 1949 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 song | nummod |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grachten | compound |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Aan | punct |
| 5 | Aan | Aan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 grachten | compound |
| 6 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Aan | flat |
| 7 | Amsterdamse | Amsterdamse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Aan | flat |
| 8 | grachten | grachten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 performed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 grachten | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 canals | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 canals | punct |
| 12 | On | on | ADP | _ | 14 canals | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 canals | det |
| 14 | canals | canal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grachten | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Amsterdam | case |
| 16 | Amsterdam | Amsterdam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 canals | nmod |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Amsterdam | punct |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 canals | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 performed | aux:pass |
| 20 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 recorded | cc |
| 22 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 performed | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 artists | case |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 artists | amod |
| 25 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 performed | obl:agent |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 John | punct |
| 27 | including | including | ADP | _ | 28 John | case |
| 28 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 performed | obl:agent |
| 29 | Kraaijkamp | Kraaijkamp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 John | flat |
| 30 | Sr. | Sr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 John | flat |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 that | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 version | det |
| 33 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 known | amod |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 best | punct |
| 35 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 version | amod |
| 36 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 that | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 that | cop |
| 38 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 39 that | advmod |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 performed | obl |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 Wim | case |
| 41 | Wim | Wim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 that | nmod |
| 42 | Sonneveld | Sonneveld | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Wim | flat |
| 43 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 1962 | punct |
| 44 | 1962 | 1962 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 Wim | appos |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 1962 | punct |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 performed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perform | past · passive | many artists | song Aan grachten | John obl:agent | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | record | participle | many artists not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | the known version | that | by Wim; probably property | 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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