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title: This urban renewal and expansion of the traditional centre of the ci… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: This urban renewal and expansion of the traditional centre of the city—with the construction of artificial islands of the new eastern IJburg neighbourhood—is part of the Structural Vision Amsterdam 2040 initiative. Who acts: urban renewal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amsterdam» with its dependency tr
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# Amsterdam, sentence 153

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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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This urban renewal and expansion of the traditional centre of the city—with the construction of artificial islands of the new eastern IJburg neighbourhood—is part of the Structural Vision Amsterdam 2040 initiative.

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**Who acts:** urban renewal · **What happens:** be, renew, construct · **To what, where:** part, traditional centre, artificial islands

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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 (urban renewal), 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:153
# text = This urban renewal and expansion of the traditional centre of the city—with the construction of artificial islands of the new eastern IJburg neighbourhood—is part of the Structural Vision Amsterdam 2040 initiative.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	renewal	renewal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	expansion	expansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	IJburg	IJburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
31	Structural	Structural	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	Vision	Vision	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	2040	2040	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	flat	_	_
35	initiative	initiative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this urban renewal of the traditional centre of the city and the construction of artificial islands of the new eastern IJburg neighbourhood and expansion | part |  |  |  | of the Amsterdam initiative | tree rules |
| 2 | **renew** |  |  | the traditional centre of the city and the construction of artificial islands of the new eastern IJburg neighbourhood |  |  |  |  | nom renewal «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **construct** |  |  | artificial islands of the new eastern IJburg neighbourhood |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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