Washington, D.C., sentence 286
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.
Duke Ellington, among the most prominent jazz composers and musicians of his time, was born and raised in Washington, and began his music career in the city.
What happens: bear, raise, begin · To what, where: Duke, Washington, music career, 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: 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 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Ellington | Ellington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Duke | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 composers | punct |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 composers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 composers | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 prominent | advmod |
| 7 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 composers | amod |
| 8 | jazz | jazz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 composers | compound |
| 9 | composers | composer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Duke | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 musicians | cc |
| 11 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 composers | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 time | nmod:poss |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 musicians | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Duke | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 born | aux:pass |
| 17 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 raised | cc |
| 19 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 born | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Washington | case |
| 21 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 raised | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 began | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 began | cc |
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 born | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 career | nmod:poss |
| 26 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 career | compound |
| 27 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 began | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 city | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 city | det |
| 30 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 began | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Duke | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | raise | participle | Washington | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in washington=Destination | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | America's music career | the city | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent career=Eventuality |
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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