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title: They range from large and modern to small and cosy. — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: They range from large and modern to small and cosy. Who acts: cafés. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amsterdam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amsterdam, sentence 532

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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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They range from large and modern to small and cosy.

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**Who acts:** cafés · **What happens:** range · **To what, where:** large

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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 (cafés), 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:532
# text = They range from large and modern to small and cosy.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	range	range	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	cosy	cosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **range** | present | cafés *= café* |  |  | large |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from large=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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