Washington, D.C., sentence 459
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.
Several community and specialty papers focus on neighborhood and cultural issues, including the weekly Washington Blade and Metro Weekly, which focus on LGBT issues; the Washington Informer and The Washington Afro American, which highlight topics of interest to the black community; and neighborhood newspapers published by The Current Newspapers.
Who acts: community papers, Washington Informer · What happens: focus, highlight, publish · To what, where: focus, topics, neighborhood newspapers
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 (community papers, Washington Informer), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 community | amod |
| 2 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 papers | compound |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 specialty | cc |
| 4 | specialty | specialty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 community | conj |
| 5 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 focus | nsubj |
| 6 | focus | focus | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 neighborhood | case |
| 8 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 focus | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 issues | cc |
| 10 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 issues | amod |
| 11 | issues | issue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 neighborhood | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Blade | punct |
| 13 | including | including | ADP | _ | 17 Blade | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Blade | det |
| 15 | weekly | weekly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Blade | amod |
| 16 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Blade | compound |
| 17 | Blade | Blade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 issues | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Metro | cc |
| 19 | Metro | Metro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Blade | conj |
| 20 | Weekly | weekly | ADV | _ | 6 focus | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 focus | punct |
| 22 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 23 focus | det |
| 23 | focus | focus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 focus | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 issues | case |
| 25 | LGBT | lgbt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 issues | compound |
| 26 | issues | issue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 focus | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 Informer | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Informer | det |
| 29 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Informer | compound |
| 30 | Informer | Informer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 highlight | nsubj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 American | cc |
| 32 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 American | det |
| 33 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Afro | compound |
| 34 | Afro | Afro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 American | compound |
| 35 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Informer | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 highlight | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 highlight | nsubj |
| 38 | highlight | highlight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 focus | conj |
| 39 | topics | topic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 highlight | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 interest | case |
| 41 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 topics | nmod |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 community | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 community | det |
| 44 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 community | amod |
| 45 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 interest | nmod |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 newspapers | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 newspapers | cc |
| 48 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 newspapers | compound |
| 49 | newspapers | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 focus | parataxis |
| 50 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 newspapers | acl |
| 51 | by | by | ADP | _ | 54 Newspapers | case |
| 52 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Newspapers | det |
| 53 | Current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 Newspapers | amod |
| 54 | Newspapers | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 published | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 focus | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | focus | present | community papers | which focus on LGBT issues | on neighborhood and cultural issues including the weekly Washington Blade and Metro; neighborhood newspapers parataxis; weekly property | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on neighborhood=Topic | |||
| 2 | highlight | present | the Washington Informer | topics of interest to the black community | which nsubj | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent topic=Patient | |||
| 3 | publish | participle | neighborhood newspapers not said here | by the Current Newspapers | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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