Washington, D.C., sentence 66
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.
Some members of Congress suggested moving the capital farther west, but President Ulysses S. Grant refused to consider the proposal.
Who acts: members, Ulysses · What happens: suggest, move, refuse, not consider · To what, where: capital, proposal
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 (members, Ulysses), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 members | det |
| 2 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 suggested | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Congress | case |
| 4 | Congress | Congress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 members | nmod |
| 5 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 suggested | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 capital | det |
| 8 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moving | obj |
| 9 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 west | advmod |
| 10 | west | west | ADV | _ | 6 moving | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 refused | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 refused | cc |
| 13 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ulysses | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 refused | nsubj |
| 15 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ulysses | flat |
| 16 | Grant | Grant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ulysses | flat |
| 17 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suggested | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 consider | mark |
| 19 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 refused | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 proposal | det |
| 21 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 consider | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | past | some members of Congress | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | move | gerund | some members of Congress not said here | the capital | west property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent capital=Theme | |||
| 3 | refuse | past | Ulysses President | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not consider | to-infinitive | Ulysses President not said here | the proposal | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent proposal=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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