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title: By 1985 the city had only 675,570 residents. — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: By 1985 the city had only 675,570 residents. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amsterdam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amsterdam, sentence 194

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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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By 1985 the city had only 675,570 residents.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** 675,570 residents

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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 (city), 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:194
# text = By 1985 the city had only 675,570 residents.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1985	1985	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	675,570	675,570	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the city | 675,570 residents |  |  |  | by 1985 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resident=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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