Amsterdam, sentence 649
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 local government has also started removing parking spaces in the city in 2019, with the goal of removing 10,000 spaces (roughly 1,500 per year) by 2025.
Who acts: local government, goal · What happens: start, remove · To what, where: parking spaces, city, 10,000 spaces
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 (local government, goal), 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 government | det |
| 2 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 government | amod |
| 3 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | aux |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 started | advmod |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | removing | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 started | xcomp |
| 8 | parking | parking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spaces | compound |
| 9 | spaces | space | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 removing | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 city | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 removing | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 2019 | case |
| 14 | 2019 | 2019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 city | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 goal | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 goal | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 goal | det |
| 18 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 removing | mark |
| 20 | removing | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 goal | acl |
| 21 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 spaces | nummod |
| 22 | spaces | space | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 removing | obj |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 1,500 | punct |
| 24 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 25 1,500 | advmod |
| 25 | 1,500 | 1,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 spaces | appos |
| 26 | per | per | ADP | _ | 27 year | case |
| 27 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 1,500 | nmod |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 removing | punct |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 2025 | case |
| 30 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 started | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present · perfect | the local government | with the goal; by 2025 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | remove | gerund | the local government not said here | parking spaces | the city in 2019 | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme | |||
| 3 | remove | gerund | the goal not said here | 10,000 spaces | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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.
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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