Washington, D.C., sentence 191
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.
Georgetown's Old Stone House, built in 1765, is the oldest-standing building in the city.
Who acts: Old Stone House · What happens: build, stand, be · To what, where: Old Stone House, oldest standing building, city
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 (Old Stone House), 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 | Georgetown | Georgetown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 House | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Georgetown | case |
| 3 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 House | amod |
| 4 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 House | compound |
| 5 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 building | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 built | punct |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 House | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1765 | case |
| 9 | 1765 | 1765 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 built | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 House | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 building | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 building | det |
| 13 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 building | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 oldest | punct |
| 15 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 building | amod |
| 16 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 city | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 building | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 building | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | participle | Georgetown's Old Stone House not said here | in 1765 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1765=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | Georgetown's Old Stone House | the oldest standing building | the city | tree rules |
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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