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title: This was all the more remarkable as Amsterdam was neither the capita… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: This was all the more remarkable as Amsterdam was neither the capital city nor the seat of government of the Dutch Republic, which itself was a much smaller state than Great Britain, France or the Ottoman Empire. Who acts: This, Amsterdam, Dutch Republic. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amsterdam» with i
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# Amsterdam, sentence 188

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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 was all the more remarkable as Amsterdam was neither the capital city nor the seat of government of the Dutch Republic, which itself was a much smaller state than Great Britain, France or the Ottoman Empire.

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**Who acts:** This, Amsterdam, Dutch Republic · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** capital city, smaller state

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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 (This, Amsterdam, Dutch Republic), 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:188
# text = This was all the more remarkable as Amsterdam was neither the capital city nor the seat of government of the Dutch Republic, which itself was a much smaller state than Great Britain, France or the Ottoman Empire.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc:preconj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	_
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
25	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
33	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Ottoman	Ottoman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | This |  |  |  |  | remarkable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Amsterdam | the capital city nor the seat of government of the Dutch Republic |  |  |  | the seat of government of the Dutch Republic *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the Dutch Republic | a smaller state |  |  |  | than Great Britain and France or the Ottoman Empire | 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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