Washington, D.C., sentence 54

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.

Most federal buildings were repaired quickly, but the Capitol, which was then still under construction, was not completed in its current form until 1868.

Who acts: Capitol, construction · What happens: repair, be, not complete, form · To what, where: Most federal buildings, construction, Capitol, current form

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 (Capitol, construction), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 buildings	amod
2	federal	federal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 buildings	amod
3	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 repaired	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 repaired	aux:pass
5	repaired	repair	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 repaired	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 completed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 completed	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Capitol	det
10	Capitol	Capitol	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 completed	nsubj:pass
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 construction	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 construction	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 construction	cop
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 construction	advmod
15	still	still	ADV	_	17 construction	advmod
16	under	under	ADP	_	17 construction	case
17	construction	construction	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Capitol	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Capitol	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 completed	aux:pass
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 completed	advmod
21	completed	complete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 repaired	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 form	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 form	nmod:poss
24	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 form	amod
25	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 completed	obl
26	until	until	ADP	_	27 1868	case
27	1868	1868	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 completed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 repaired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repair	past · passive		Most federal buildings			quickly property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	the Capitol and construction		construction	then; still		tree rules
3	not complete	past · passive		the Capitol and construction	construction's current form	until 1868		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	form		construction					nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Washington, D.C., sentence 54