Washington, D.C., sentence 484
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.
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) operates Washington Metro, the city's rapid transit rail system, which serves Washington, D.C. and its Maryland and Northern Virginia suburbs.
Who acts: Area Transit Authority, rapid transit rail system · What happens: operate, serve · To what, where: Washington, Washington suburbs
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 (Area Transit Authority, rapid transit rail system), 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 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Area | compound |
| 2 | Metropolitan | Metropolitan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Area | compound |
| 3 | Area | Area | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Authority | compound |
| 4 | Transit | Transit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Authority | compound |
| 5 | Authority | Authority | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 operates | nsubj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 WMATA | punct |
| 7 | WMATA | WMATA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Authority | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 WMATA | punct |
| 9 | operates | operate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 operates | obj |
| 11 | Metro | Metro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Washington | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 system | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 system | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 city | case |
| 16 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 system | amod |
| 17 | transit | transit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 system | compound |
| 18 | rail | rail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 system | compound |
| 19 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Washington | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 serves | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 serves | nsubj |
| 22 | serves | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 system | acl:relcl |
| 23 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 suburbs | compound |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 D.C. | punct |
| 25 | D.C. | D.C. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Washington | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Maryland | cc |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 Maryland | nmod:poss |
| 28 | Maryland | Maryland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Washington | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Virginia | cc |
| 30 | Northern | Northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Virginia | amod |
| 31 | Virginia | Virginia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Washington | conj |
| 32 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 serves | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 operates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | operate | present | Area Transit Authority | Washington | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme washington=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | serve | present | the city's rapid transit rail system | Washington suburbs | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suburb=Attribute |
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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