Amsterdam, sentence 665

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.

Bicycles are used by all socio-economic groups because of their convenience, Amsterdam's small size, the 400 km of bike paths, the flat terrain, and the inconvenience of driving an automobile.

Who acts: socio-economic groups, inconvenience · What happens: use, drive · To what, where: Bicycles, automobile

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 (socio-economic groups, inconvenience), 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	Bicycles	bicycle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 used	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 used	aux:pass
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 groups	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 groups	det
6	socio-economic	socio-economic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 groups	amod
7	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 used	obl
8	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	11 convenience	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 because	fixed
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 convenience	nmod:poss
11	convenience	convenience	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 size	punct
13	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 size	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Amsterdam	case
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 size	amod
16	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 convenience	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 km	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 km	det
19	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 km	nummod
20	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 convenience	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 paths	case
22	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 paths	compound
23	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 km	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 terrain	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 terrain	det
26	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 terrain	amod
27	terrain	terrain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 convenience	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 inconvenience	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 inconvenience	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 inconvenience	det
31	inconvenience	inconvenience	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	parataxis
32	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 driving	mark
33	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 inconvenience	acl
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 automobile	det
35	automobile	automobile	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 driving	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive	all socio-economic groups	Bicycles				because bicycles's convenience and Amsterdam's small size and the 400 km of bike paths and the flat terrain; the inconvenience parataxis	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	drive	gerund	the inconvenience not said here	a automobile					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme automobile=Trajectory

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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Amsterdam, sentence 665