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title: The University of Amsterdam is home to Room for Discussion, an indep… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: The University of Amsterdam is home to Room for Discussion, an independent interview platform that has welcomed a variety of prominent guests including Christine Lagarde, Mario Draghi, Charles Michel, Rob Bauer, and Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. Who acts: University. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amsterdam
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# Amsterdam, sentence 667

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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 University of Amsterdam is home to Room for Discussion, an independent interview platform that has welcomed a variety of prominent guests including Christine Lagarde, Mario Draghi, Charles Michel, Rob Bauer, and Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

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**Who acts:** University · **What happens:** be, welcome, include · **To what, where:** independent interview platform

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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 (University), 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:667
# text = The University of Amsterdam is home to Room for Discussion, an independent interview platform that has welcomed a variety of prominent guests including Christine Lagarde, Mario Draghi, Charles Michel, Rob Bauer, and Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Discussion	Discussion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	interview	interview	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	variety	variety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	case	_	_
25	Christine	Christine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Lagarde	Lagarde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Mario	Mario	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Draghi	Draghi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	Michel	Michel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Rob	Rob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
35	Bauer	Bauer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	Sviatlana	Sviatlana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
39	Tsikhanouskaya	Tsikhanouskaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the University of Amsterdam |  |  |  |  | to Room and a independent interview platform; for Discussion; a independent interview platform *conj*; Sviatlana *appos*; home *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **welcome** | present · perfect · passive |  | a independent interview platform |  |  |  | a variety of prominent guests include Christine Lagarde and Mario Draghi and Charles and Rob *obj* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme variety=Location |
| 3 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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