Washington, D.C., sentence 12
From Wikipedia, «Washington, D.C.», 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.
Designed in 1791 by Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the city is split into quadrants that meet at the Capitol Building, with 131 neighborhoods overall.
Who acts: Pierre Charles, quadrants · What happens: design, split, meet · To what, where: 1791, city, quadrants, Capitol Building
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Washington, D.C.». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pierre Charles, quadrants), 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 | Designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 1791 | case |
| 3 | 1791 | 1791 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Designed | obl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Charles | case |
| 5 | Pierre | Pierre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Charles | compound |
| 6 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Designed | obl:agent |
| 7 | L'Enfant | L'Enfant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Charles | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 split | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 split | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 split | aux:pass |
| 12 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Charles | acl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 quadrants | case |
| 14 | quadrants | quadrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 split | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 meet | nsubj |
| 16 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 quadrants | acl:relcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 Building | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Building | det |
| 19 | Capitol | Capitol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Building | compound |
| 20 | Building | Building | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 meet | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 neighborhoods | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 neighborhoods | case |
| 23 | 131 | 131 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 neighborhoods | nummod |
| 24 | neighborhoods | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 split | obl |
| 25 | overall | overall | ADV | _ | 24 neighborhoods | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Designed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | design | participle | 1791 | Pierre Charles obl:agent | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | split | present · passive | Pierre Charles not said here | the city | into quadrants result; with 131 neighborhoods | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: subject=Patient into quadrant=Result with neighborhood=Instrument | |||
| 3 | meet | present | quadrants | the Capitol Building | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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