Washington, D.C., sentence 201
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.
The Washington metropolitan area, which includes the district and surrounding suburbs, is the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the U.S., with an estimated six million residents as of 2016.
Who acts: Washington metropolitan area · What happens: include, surround, be, estimate · To what, where: district, suburbs, largest metropolitan area, U.S.
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 (Washington metropolitan area), 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 | 4 area | det |
| 2 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 area | compound |
| 3 | metropolitan | metropolitan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 area | compound |
| 4 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 area | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 includes | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 includes | nsubj |
| 7 | includes | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 area | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 district | det |
| 9 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 includes | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 surrounding | cc |
| 11 | surrounding | surround | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 district | conj |
| 12 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 surrounding | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 area | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 area | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 area | det |
| 16 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 largest | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 sixth | punct |
| 18 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 area | amod |
| 19 | metropolitan | metropolitan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 area | compound |
| 20 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 U.S. | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 U.S. | det |
| 23 | U.S. | U.S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 area | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 residents | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 residents | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 residents | det |
| 27 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 residents | amod |
| 28 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 million | compound |
| 29 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 residents | nummod |
| 30 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 area | parataxis |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 33 2016 | case |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 as | fixed |
| 33 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 residents | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 area | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | the Washington metropolitan area | the district | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent district=Theme | ||||
| 2 | surround | gerund | the Washington metropolitan area not said here | suburbs | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme suburb=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the Washington metropolitan area | the largest metropolitan area | the U.S. | a estimated million residents as 2016 parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 4 | estimate | participle | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: 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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