The Hague, sentence 98
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 area used to be part of Rijswijk until the municipality of The Hague bought the land in 1844.
Who acts: area, municipality · What happens: use, be, buy · To what, where: part, land, 1844
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 (area, municipality), 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 area | det |
| 2 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 part | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 part | cop |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Rijswijk | case |
| 8 | Rijswijk | Rijswijk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 15 bought | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 municipality | det |
| 11 | municipality | municipality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bought | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Hague | case |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Hague | det |
| 14 | Hague | Hague | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 municipality | nmod |
| 15 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 land | det |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bought | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 1844 | case |
| 19 | 1844 | 1844 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 bought | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | the area | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the area not said here | part | of Rijswijk | tree rules | |||
| 3 | buy | past | the municipality of the Hague | the land | 1844 | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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.
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