Washington, D.C., sentence 38
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.
Under the Residence Act, the exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, who signed the bill into law on July 16, 1790.
Who acts: George · What happens: select, sign · To what, where: exact location, Residence Act, bill, law
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 (George), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 4 Act | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Act | det |
| 3 | Residence | Residence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Act | compound |
| 4 | Act | Act | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 selected | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Act | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 location | det |
| 7 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 location | amod |
| 8 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 selected | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 selected | aux |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 selected | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 selected | aux:pass |
| 12 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 George | case |
| 14 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 George | nmod:desc |
| 15 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 selected | obl:agent |
| 16 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 George | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 signed | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 signed | nsubj |
| 19 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 George | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bill | det |
| 21 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 signed | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 law | case |
| 23 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 signed | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 16 | case |
| 25 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 16 | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 signed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 16 | punct |
| 28 | 1790 | 1790 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 16 | nmod:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 selected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | past · passive | George President | the exact location | the Residence Act | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | sign | past | George President | the bill | law | on 16 July 1790 | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent bill=Theme into law=Destination |
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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