Washington, D.C., sentence 39

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.

Formed from land donated by Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 mi on each side and totaling 100 sqmi.

Who acts: Formed land, square · What happens: form, donate, be, measure, total · To what, where: Formed land, square, 10 mi, side, 100 sqmi

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 (Formed land, square), 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	Formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 land	amod
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 land	case
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 square	nsubj
4	donated	donate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 land	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 Maryland	case
6	Maryland	Maryland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 donated	obl:agent
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Virginia	cc
8	Virginia	Virginia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Maryland	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shape	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shape	det
11	initial	initial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shape	amod
12	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Maryland	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 district	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 district	det
15	federal	federal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 district	amod
16	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shape	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 square	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 square	det
19	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	measuring	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 square	acl
21	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 mi	nummod
22	mi	mi	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 measuring	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 side	case
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 side	det
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 measuring	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 totaling	cc
27	totaling	total	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 measuring	conj
28	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 sqmi	nummod
29	sqmi	sqmi	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 totaling	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 square	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	form	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	donate	participle		Formed land not said here		Maryland and Virginia obl:agent	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	Formed land	a square			tree rules
4	measure	gerund	a square not said here	10 mi	each side		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme mi=Value
5	total	gerund	a square not said here	100 sqmi			vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sqmi=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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Washington, D.C.», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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The tree

Pragmatics

Washington, D.C., sentence 39