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title: Each year in October, the city hosts the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE)… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: Each year in October, the city hosts the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) which is one of the leading electronic music conferences and one of the biggest club festivals for electronic music in the world, attracting over 350,000 visitors each year. Who acts: city, Dance Event. A sentence of Wikipedia's «A
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# Amsterdam, sentence 499

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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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Each year in October, the city hosts the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) which is one of the leading electronic music conferences and one of the biggest club festivals for electronic music in the world, attracting over 350,000 visitors each year.

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**Who acts:** city, Dance Event · **What happens:** host, be, lead, attract · **To what, where:** one, 350,000 visitors

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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, Dance Event), 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:499
# text = Each year in October, the city hosts the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) which is one of the leading electronic music conferences and one of the biggest club festivals for electronic music in the world, attracting over 350,000 visitors each year.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hosts	host	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Dance	Dance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Event	Event	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	ADE	ADE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
22	electronic	electronic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	conferences	conference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
30	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	festivals	festival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	electronic	electronic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	attracting	attract	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
40	over	over	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	350,000	350000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
43	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	det	_	_
44	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **host** | present | the city |  |  |  | year |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Dance Event | one |  |  |  | of the leading electronic music conferences; which *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 4 | **attract** | gerund | the city *not said here* | 350,000 visitors |  |  | year |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=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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