The Hague, sentence 236
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.
The Plein (meaning "Plaza" or "Town square") is taken by several large sidewalk cafés, where often politicians may be spotted.
Who acts: Plein, several large sidewalk cafés · What happens: mean, take, spot · To what, where: Plaza, Plein, politicians
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 (Plein, several large sidewalk cafés), 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 | 2 Plein | det |
| 2 | Plein | Plein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 meaning | punct |
| 4 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Plein | acl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Plaza | punct |
| 6 | Plaza | Plaza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 meaning | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Plaza | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 square | cc |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 square | punct |
| 10 | Town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 square | compound |
| 11 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Plaza | conj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 square | punct |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 Plaza | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 taken | aux:pass |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 cafés | case |
| 17 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cafés | amod |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cafés | amod |
| 19 | sidewalk | sidewalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cafés | compound |
| 20 | cafés | café | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 taken | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 spotted | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 spotted | advmod |
| 23 | often | often | ADV | _ | 27 spotted | advmod |
| 24 | politicians | politician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 spotted | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 spotted | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 spotted | aux:pass |
| 27 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 cafés | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | gerund | the Plein not said here | Plaza or Town square | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plaza=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | present · passive | several large sidewalk cafés | the Plein | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | spot | may · passive | politicians | often property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
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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