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title: One ad shows young men being handcuffed by police and is part of a n… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: One ad shows young men being handcuffed by police and is part of a new campaign to clean up the city's reputation. Who acts: One ad, police, city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amsterdam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amsterdam, sentence 400

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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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One ad shows young men being handcuffed by police and is part of a new campaign to clean up the city's reputation.

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**Who acts:** One ad, police, city · **What happens:** show, handcuff, be, clean up, repute · **To what, where:** young men, part, reputation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (One ad, police, 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:400
# text = One ad shows young men being handcuffed by police and is part of a new campaign to clean up the city's reputation.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	ad	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	handcuffed	handcuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	reputation	reputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | One ad |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **handcuff** | gerund · passive | police | young men |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | police *not said here* | part |  |  |  | of a new campaign | tree rules |
| 4 | **clean up** | to-infinitive | police *not said here* | the city's reputation |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent reputation=Patient |
| 5 | **repute** |  | the city |  |  |  |  |  | nom reputation «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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