Washington, D.C., sentence 425
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.
Congress must operate from a district it controls, but it can be no larger than ten miles on a side; the 2021 statehood bill got around this by proposing the federal district be shrunk to an area roughly the size of the National Mall.
Who acts: Congress, statehood, statehood bill · What happens: operate, control, not be, get, propose, shrink · To what, where: district, this, federal district
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 (Congress, statehood, statehood bill), 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 | Congress | Congress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 operate | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 operate | aux |
| 3 | operate | operate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 district | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 district | det |
| 6 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 operate | obl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 controls | nsubj |
| 8 | controls | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 district | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 larger | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 larger | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 larger | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 larger | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 larger | cop |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 larger | advmod |
| 15 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 operate | parataxis |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 miles | case |
| 17 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 miles | nummod |
| 18 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 larger | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 side | det |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 miles | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 got | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bill | det |
| 24 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 statehood | nummod |
| 25 | statehood | statehood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bill | compound |
| 26 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 got | nsubj |
| 27 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 operate | parataxis |
| 28 | around | around | ADP | _ | 29 this | case |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 got | obl |
| 30 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 31 proposing | mark |
| 31 | proposing | propose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 got | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 district | det |
| 33 | federal | federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 district | amod |
| 34 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shrunk | nsubj |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 shrunk | aux:pass |
| 36 | shrunk | shrink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 proposing | ccomp |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 area | case |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 area | det |
| 39 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shrunk | obl |
| 40 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 42 size | advmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 size | det |
| 42 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 area | nmod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Mall | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Mall | det |
| 45 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 Mall | amod |
| 46 | Mall | Mall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 size | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 operate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | operate | must | Congress | a district | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | control | present | statehood | a district not said here | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent district=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | can | statehood | than ten miles on a side; large property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | past | the statehood bill | this | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around this=Destination | ||||
| 5 | propose | gerund | the statehood bill not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | shrink | infinitive · passive | the federal district | to a area the size of the National Mall result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to area=Result |
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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