Washington, D.C., sentence 415
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.
A 2005 poll found that 78% of Americans did not know residents of Washington, D.C., have less representation in Congress than residents of the 50 states.
Who acts: 2005 poll · What happens: find, not know, have · To what, where: residents, less representation, Congress · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (2005 poll), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 poll | det |
| 2 | 2005 | 2005 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 poll | nummod |
| 3 | poll | poll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 6 | 78 | 78 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 % | nummod |
| 7 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 12 know | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Americans | case |
| 9 | Americans | American | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 % | nmod |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 know | advmod |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 found | ccomp |
| 13 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 know | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Washington | case |
| 15 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 residents | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 D.C. | punct |
| 17 | D.C. | D.C. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Washington | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | conj |
| 20 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 representation | amod |
| 21 | representation | representation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Congress | case |
| 23 | Congress | Congress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 representation | nmod |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 residents | case |
| 25 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 representation | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 states | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 states | det |
| 28 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 states | nummod |
| 29 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 residents | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | a 2005 poll | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | residents of Washington D.C. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer resident=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have | present | less representation | Congress | than residents of the 50 states | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent representation=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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