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title: A large influx of foreigners of many religions came to 17th-century… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: A large influx of foreigners of many religions came to 17th-century Amsterdam, in particular Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal, Huguenots from France, Lutherans, Mennonites, as well as Protestants from across the Netherlands. Who acts: large influx. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amsterdam» with it
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# Amsterdam, sentence 251

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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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A large influx of foreigners of many religions came to 17th-century Amsterdam, in particular Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal, Huguenots from France, Lutherans, Mennonites, as well as Protestants from across the Netherlands.

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**Who acts:** large influx · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** 17th century Amsterdam

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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 (large influx), 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:251
# text = A large influx of foreigners of many religions came to 17th-century Amsterdam, in particular Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal, Huguenots from France, Lutherans, Mennonites, as well as Protestants from across the Netherlands.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	influx	influx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	religions	religion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	17th	17th	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Sephardic	Sephardic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	advcl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Huguenots	huguenot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	flat	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Lutherans	Lutheran	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Mennonites	mennonite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	36	cc	_	_
34	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	fixed	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
36	Protestants	Protestant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	appos	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	across	across	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a large influx of foreigners of many religions |  |  | 17th century Amsterdam |  | particular Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal *advcl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to amsterdam=Initial\_Location |

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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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