Washington, D.C., sentence 285

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 city grew into being one of America's most important music cities in the early Jazz Age.

Who acts: city · What happens: grow, be

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 (city), 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	2 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 one	case
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 one	cop
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 grew	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	13 cities	case
8	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cities	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 America	case
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 important	advmod
11	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cities	amod
12	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cities	compound
13	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 Age	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Age	det
16	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Age	amod
17	Jazz	Jazz	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Age	compound
18	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cities	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the city						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	gerund						into one; of America's important music cities in the early Jazz Age	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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The tree

Pragmatics

Washington, D.C., sentence 285