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title: The local government sponsors carsharing and carpooling initiatives… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: The local government sponsors carsharing and carpooling initiatives such as Autodelen and Meerijden.nu. Who acts: local government sponsors. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amsterdam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amsterdam, sentence 648

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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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The local government sponsors carsharing and carpooling initiatives such as Autodelen and Meerijden.nu.

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**Who acts:** local government sponsors · **What happens:** carshar, carpool · **To what, where:** initiatives, local government sponsors

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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 (local government sponsors), 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:648
# text = The local government sponsors carsharing and carpooling initiatives such as Autodelen and Meerijden.nu.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sponsors	sponsor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	carsharing	carshar	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	carpooling	carpool	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
8	initiatives	initiative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	Autodelen	Autodelen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Meerijden.nu	Meerijden.nu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carshar** | gerund | the local government sponsors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carpool** | gerund | the local government sponsors *not said here* | initiatives |  |  |  | such Autodelen and Meerijden.nu | tree rules |

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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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