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title: Because of the war and other events of the 20th century, almost the… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: Because of the war and other events of the 20th century, almost the entire city centre had fallen into disrepair. Who acts: entire city centre. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amsterdam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amsterdam, sentence 131

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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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Because of the war and other events of the 20th century, almost the entire city centre had fallen into disrepair.

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**Who acts:** entire city centre · **What happens:** fall · **To what, where:** disrepair

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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: who acts (entire city centre), 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:131
# text = Because of the war and other events of the 20th century, almost the entire city centre had fallen into disrepair.
1	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	disrepair	disrepair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past · perfect | the entire city centre |  |  |  |  | into disrepair *result*; because the war and other events of the 20th century | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into disrepair=Result |

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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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