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title: Several movies have been filmed in Amsterdam, including the James Bo… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: Several movies have been filmed in Amsterdam, including the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, Ocean's Twelve, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Kidnapping Mr. Heineken, Layer Cake and The Hitman's Bodyguard. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amsterdam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amsterdam, sentence 691

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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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Several movies have been filmed in Amsterdam, including the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, Ocean's Twelve, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Kidnapping Mr. Heineken, Layer Cake and The Hitman's Bodyguard.

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**What happens:** film, be, kidnap · **To what, where:** Several movies, Amsterdam, Heineken

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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: 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:691
# text = Several movies have been filmed in Amsterdam, including the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, Ocean's Twelve, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Kidnapping Mr. Heineken, Layer Cake and The Hitman's Bodyguard.
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	movies	movie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	filmed	film	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	including	including	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Bond	Bond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
15	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	Forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Girl	Girl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Pearl	Pearl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Earring	earring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Kidnapping	kidnap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
29	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:desc	_	_
30	Heineken	Heineken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Layer	Layer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
33	Cake	Cake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Hitman	Hitman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	Bodyguard	Bodyguard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **film** | present · perfect · passive |  | Several movies |  | Amsterdam |  | Ocean's Twelve *obl*; Girl with a Pearl Earring *obl* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in amsterdam=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | including the Bond film Diamonds; forever *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **kidnap** | gerund |  | Heineken  Mr. and the Hitman's Bodyguard |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heineken=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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