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title: Its artistic heritage, canals, and narrow canal houses with gabled f… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: Its artistic heritage, canals, and narrow canal houses with gabled façades, well-preserved legacies of the city's 17th-century Golden Age, have attracted millions of visitors annually. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amsterdam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amsterdam, sentence 13

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From Wikipedia, [«Amsterdam»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Its artistic heritage, canals, and narrow canal houses with gabled façades, well-preserved legacies of the city's 17th-century Golden Age, have attracted millions of visitors annually.

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**What happens:** gable, preserve, attract · **To what, where:** artistic heritage

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Amsterdam». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Amsterdam:13
# text = Its artistic heritage, canals, and narrow canal houses with gabled façades, well-preserved legacies of the city's 17th-century Golden Age, have attracted millions of visitors annually.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	artistic	artistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	heritage	heritage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	canals	canal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
8	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	gabled	gable	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	façades	façade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	legacies	legacy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	17th	17th	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
26	Golden	Golden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
31	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gable** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **preserve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **attract** | present · perfect · passive |  | city's artistic heritage and canals |  |  |  | narrow canal houses with gabled façades and preserved legacies of the city's 17th century *nsubj:pass*; millions of visitors *obj*; annually *property* | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Amsterdam», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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