The Hague, sentence 122
From Wikipedia, «The Hague», 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.
Instead, it has some small streets in the town centre that may be dated from the late Middle Ages and several spacious streets boasting large and luxurious 18th-century residences built for diplomats and affluent Dutch families.
Who acts: city, several spacious streets · What happens: have, date, boast, build · To what, where: small streets, town centre, late Middle Ages, large century residences
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «The Hague». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, several spacious streets), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | _ | 4 has | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Instead | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 streets | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 streets | amod |
| 7 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 centre | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 centre | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 centre | compound |
| 11 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 streets | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 dated | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 dated | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 dated | aux:pass |
| 15 | dated | date | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 centre | acl:relcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Ages | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Ages | det |
| 18 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Ages | amod |
| 19 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ages | flat |
| 20 | Ages | Age | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 dated | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 streets | cc |
| 22 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 streets | amod |
| 23 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 streets | amod |
| 24 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 streets | conj |
| 25 | boasting | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 streets | acl |
| 26 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 residences | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 luxurious | cc |
| 28 | luxurious | luxurious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 large | conj |
| 29 | 18th | 18th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 31 century | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 18th | punct |
| 31 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 residences | compound |
| 32 | residences | residence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 boasting | obj |
| 33 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 residences | acl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 diplomats | case |
| 35 | diplomats | diplomat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 built | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 families | cc |
| 37 | affluent | affluent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 families | amod |
| 38 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 families | amod |
| 39 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 diplomats | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | city | some small streets and several spacious streets | the town centre | instead property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Patient | ||
| 2 | date | may · passive | the town centre | from the late Middle Ages | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | boast speech: other | gerund | several spacious streets not said here | large century residences | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | build | participle | large century residences not said here | for diplomats and affluent Dutch families | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for diplomat=Asset |
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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