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title: On 25 May 2023, in a bid to crackdown on wild tourist behaviour, the… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: On 25 May 2023, in a bid to crackdown on wild tourist behaviour, the city banned cannabis smoking in public areas in and around the red light district. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amsterdam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amsterdam, sentence 401

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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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On 25 May 2023, in a bid to crackdown on wild tourist behaviour, the city banned cannabis smoking in public areas in and around the red light district.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** ban · **To what, where:** cannabis smoking, public areas, 25

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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:401
# text = On 25 May 2023, in a bid to crackdown on wild tourist behaviour, the city banned cannabis smoking in public areas in and around the red light district.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bid	bid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	crackdown	crackdown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	tourist	tourist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
18	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	cannabis	cannabis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	smoking	smoking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	around	around	ADP	IN	_	24	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ban** | participle | the city *not said here* | cannabis smoking |  | public areas |  | in the red light district | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer smoking=Theme |

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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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