Washington, D.C., sentence 213
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.
Partly as a result of gentrification, there was a 31.4% increase in the non-Hispanic white population and an 11.5% decrease in the black population between 2000 and 2010.
Who acts: result · What happens: be, result · To what, where: % increase, non-Hispanic white population, gentrification
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 (result), 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 | Partly | partly | ADV | _ | 4 result | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 result | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 result | det |
| 4 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 increase | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gentrification | case |
| 6 | gentrification | gentrification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 result | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 increase | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 increase | det |
| 11 | 31.4 | 31.4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 % | nummod |
| 12 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 13 increase | compound |
| 13 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 population | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 population | det |
| 16 | non-Hispanic | non-hispanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 population | amod |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 population | amod |
| 18 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 increase | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 decrease | cc |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 decrease | det |
| 21 | 11.5 | 11.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 22 % | nummod |
| 22 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 23 decrease | compound |
| 23 | decrease | decrease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 population | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 population | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 population | det |
| 26 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 population | amod |
| 27 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 decrease | nmod |
| 28 | between | between | ADP | _ | 29 2000 | case |
| 29 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 population | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 2010 | cc |
| 31 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 2000 | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 increase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a result of gentrification | a % increase | the non-Hispanic white population and a % decrease in the black population between 2000 | tree rules | |||
| 2 | result | gentrification | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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