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title: The local government has also started removing parking spaces in the… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: The local government has also started removing parking spaces in the city in 2019, with the goal of removing 10,000 spaces (roughly 1,500 per year) by 2025. Who acts: local government, goal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amsterdam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amsterdam, sentence 649

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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 has also started removing parking spaces in the city in 2019, with the goal of removing 10,000 spaces (roughly 1,500 per year) by 2025.

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**Who acts:** local government, goal · **What happens:** start, remove · **To what, where:** parking spaces, city, 10,000 spaces

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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, goal), 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:649
# text = The local government has also started removing parking spaces in the city in 2019, with the goal of removing 10,000 spaces (roughly 1,500 per year) by 2025.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	removing	remove	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	parking	parking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	spaces	space	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	removing	remove	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	spaces	space	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	1,500	1,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	appos	_	_
26	per	per	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	2025	2025	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present · perfect | the local government |  |  |  |  | with the goal; by 2025 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **remove** | gerund | the local government *not said here* | parking spaces |  | the city in 2019 |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme |
| 3 | **remove** | gerund | the goal *not said here* | 10,000 spaces |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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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