Washington, D.C., sentence 272
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.
Founded in 1925, the United States Navy Band has its headquarters at the Washington Navy Yard and performs at official events and public concerts around the city.
Who acts: United States · What happens: found, have, perform · To what, where: 1925, headquarters, official events
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 (United States), 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 | Founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 1925 | case |
| 3 | 1925 | 1925 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Founded | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 States | det |
| 6 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 States | amod |
| 7 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 has | nsubj |
| 8 | Navy | Navy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 9 | Band | Band | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Navy | flat |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Founded | parataxis |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 headquarters | nmod:poss |
| 12 | headquarters | headquarters | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 Yard | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Yard | det |
| 15 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Yard | compound |
| 16 | Navy | Navy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Yard | compound |
| 17 | Yard | Yard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 headquarters | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 performs | cc |
| 19 | performs | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 has | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 events | case |
| 21 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 events | amod |
| 22 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 performs | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 concerts | cc |
| 24 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 concerts | amod |
| 25 | concerts | concert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 events | conj |
| 26 | around | around | ADP | _ | 28 city | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 city | det |
| 28 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 concerts | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | participle | 1925 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | present | the United States | Theatre's headquarters | at the Washington Navy Yard; Navy nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headquarters=Patient | |||
| 3 | perform | present | the United States not said here | official events and public concerts around the city | vn performance-26.7 «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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