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title: The influx of Flemish printers and the city's intellectual tolerance… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: The influx of Flemish printers and the city's intellectual tolerance made Amsterdam a centre for the European free press. Who acts: intellectual tolerance. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amsterdam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amsterdam, sentence 74

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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 influx of Flemish printers and the city's intellectual tolerance made Amsterdam a centre for the European free press.

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**Who acts:** intellectual tolerance · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** centre, Amsterdam, influx

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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 (intellectual tolerance), 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:74
# text = The influx of Flemish printers and the city's intellectual tolerance made Amsterdam a centre for the European free press.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	influx	influx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Flemish	flemish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	printers	printer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tolerance	tolerance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle | the city's intellectual tolerance *not said here* | a centre | Amsterdam |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset amsterdam=Beneficiary centre=Product |

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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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