Amsterdam, sentence 499
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.
Each year in October, the city hosts the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) which is one of the leading electronic music conferences and one of the biggest club festivals for electronic music in the world, attracting over 350,000 visitors each year.
Who acts: city, Dance Event · What happens: host, be, lead, attract · To what, where: one, 350,000 visitors
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, Dance Event), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hosts | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 October | case |
| 4 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 year | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 year | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hosts | nsubj |
| 8 | hosts | host | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Event | det |
| 10 | Amsterdam | Amsterdam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Dance | compound |
| 11 | Dance | Dance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Event | compound |
| 12 | Event | Event | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 one | nsubj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 ADE | punct |
| 14 | ADE | ADE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Event | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 ADE | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 one | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | cop |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hosts | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 conferences | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 conferences | det |
| 21 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 conferences | amod |
| 22 | electronic | electronic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 conferences | amod |
| 23 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 conferences | compound |
| 24 | conferences | conference | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 one | cc |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 conferences | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 festivals | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 festivals | det |
| 29 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 festivals | amod |
| 30 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 festivals | compound |
| 31 | festivals | festival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 one | nmod |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 music | case |
| 33 | electronic | electronic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 music | amod |
| 34 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 festivals | nmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 world | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 world | det |
| 37 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 festivals | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 attracting | punct |
| 39 | attracting | attract | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hosts | advcl |
| 40 | over | over | ADV | _ | 41 350,000 | advmod |
| 41 | 350,000 | 350000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 visitors | nummod |
| 42 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 attracting | obj |
| 43 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 year | det |
| 44 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 attracting | obl:unmarked |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hosts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | host | present | the city | year | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Dance Event | one | of the leading electronic music conferences; which nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 4 | attract | gerund | the city not said here | 350,000 visitors | year | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Patient |
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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