Amsterdam, sentence 519
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.
Royal Theatre Carré on the Amstel opened on 3 December 1887 as a permanent stone circus building for the circus director Oscar Carré, and turned to variety, revue and drama within a few years; it is now used mainly for musicals, cabaret and pop concerts.
Who acts: Royal Theatre · What happens: open, turn, use · To what, where: 3, variety, drama
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 (Royal Theatre), 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 | Royal | Royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Theatre | amod |
| 2 | Theatre | Theatre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | Carré | Carré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Theatre | flat |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Amstel | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Amstel | det |
| 6 | Amstel | Amstel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Theatre | nmod |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 3 | case |
| 9 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 opened | obl |
| 10 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 3 | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | 1887 | 1887 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 3 | flat |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 building | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 building | det |
| 14 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 building | amod |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 building | compound |
| 16 | circus | circus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 building | amod |
| 17 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 director | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 director | det |
| 20 | circus | circus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 director | amod |
| 21 | director | director | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 building | nmod |
| 22 | Oscar | Oscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 director | appos |
| 23 | Carré | Carré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Oscar | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 turned | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 turned | cc |
| 26 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 variety | case |
| 28 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turned | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 revue | punct |
| 30 | revue | revue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 variety | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 drama | cc |
| 32 | drama | drama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 variety | conj |
| 33 | within | within | ADP | _ | 36 years | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 years | det |
| 35 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 years | amod |
| 36 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 turned | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 used | punct |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 used | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 used | aux:pass |
| 40 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 used | advmod |
| 41 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 opened | conj |
| 42 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 41 used | advmod |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 musicals | case |
| 44 | musicals | musical | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 used | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 cabaret | punct |
| 46 | cabaret | cabaret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 musicals | conj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 concerts | cc |
| 48 | pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 concerts | compound |
| 49 | concerts | concert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 musicals | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Royal Theatre on the Amstel | 3 December | as a permanent stone circus building for the circus director | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on 3=Location | |||
| 2 | turn | past | Royal Theatre on the Amstel not said here | variety and revue and drama | year | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to variety=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | use | present · passive | drama | now | for musicals and cabaret and pop concerts; mainly property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for musical=Eventuality |
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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