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title: Royal Theatre Carré on the Amstel opened on 3 December 1887 as a per… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: Royal Theatre Carré on the Amstel opened on 3 December 1887 as a permanent stone circus building for the circus director Oscar Carré, and turned to variety, revue and drama within a few years; it is now used mainly for musicals, cabaret and pop concerts. Who acts: Royal Theatre. A sentence of Wikipe
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# Amsterdam, sentence 519

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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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Royal Theatre Carré on the Amstel opened on 3 December 1887 as a permanent stone circus building for the circus director Oscar Carré, and turned to variety, revue and drama within a few years; it is now used mainly for musicals, cabaret and pop concerts.

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**Who acts:** Royal Theatre · **What happens:** open, turn, use · **To what, where:** 3, variety, drama

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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 (Royal Theatre), 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:519
# text = Royal Theatre Carré on the Amstel opened on 3 December 1887 as a permanent stone circus building for the circus director Oscar Carré, and turned to variety, revue and drama within a few years; it is now used mainly for musicals, cabaret and pop concerts.
1	Royal	Royal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Theatre	Theatre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Carré	Carré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Amstel	Amstel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	1887	1887	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	circus	circus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	circus	circus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	director	director	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
23	Carré	Carré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	variety	variety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	revue	revue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	drama	drama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	within	within	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
40	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
41	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
42	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	musicals	musical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	cabaret	cabaret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	concerts	concert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | Royal Theatre on the Amstel |  |  | 3  December |  | as a permanent stone circus building for the circus director | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on 3=Location |
| 2 | **turn** | past | Royal Theatre on the Amstel *not said here* |  |  | variety and revue and drama | year |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to variety=Trajectory |
| 3 | **use** | present · passive |  | drama |  |  | now | for musicals and cabaret and pop concerts; mainly *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for musical=Eventuality |

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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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