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title: However, a much larger majority has at least one parent who was born… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: However, a much larger majority has at least one parent who was born inside the country (intercultural marriages are common in the city). Who acts: larger majority, intercultural marriages. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amsterdam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amsterdam, sentence 215

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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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However, a much larger majority has at least one parent who was born inside the country (intercultural marriages are common in the city).

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**Who acts:** larger majority, intercultural marriages · **What happens:** have, bear, be · **To what, where:** one parent, country, city

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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 (larger majority, intercultural marriages), 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:215
# text = However, a much larger majority has at least one parent who was born inside the country (intercultural marriages are common in the city).
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nmod	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	intercultural	intercultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	marriages	marriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a larger majority | one parent |  |  |  | however *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Patient |
| 2 | **bear** | past · passive |  | one parent |  | the country |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | intercultural marriages |  |  | the city |  | common *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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