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title: Berlin's 2001 administrative reform merged several boroughs, reducin… — Berlin · tree and pragmatics
description: Berlin's 2001 administrative reform merged several boroughs, reducing their number from 23 to 12. Who acts: 2001 administrative reform, Berlin. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Berlin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Berlin, sentence 118

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From Wikipedia, [«Berlin»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin), 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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Berlin's 2001 administrative reform merged several boroughs, reducing their number from 23 to 12.

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**Who acts:** 2001 administrative reform, Berlin · **What happens:** merge, reduce, reform · **To what, where:** several boroughs, number, 23

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Berlin». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (2001 administrative reform, Berlin), 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:Berlin:118
# text = Berlin's 2001 administrative reform merged several boroughs, reducing their number from 23 to 12.
1	Berlin	Berlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reform	reform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	merged	merge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	boroughs	borough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	reducing	reduce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **merge** | past | Berlin's 2001 administrative reform | several boroughs |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent borough=Patient |
| 2 | **reduce** | gerund | Berlin's 2001 administrative reform *not said here* | capital's number |  | 23 to 12 |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer number=Patient |
| 3 | **reform** |  | Berlin |  |  |  |  |  | nom reform «act transitive»: poss=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, «Berlin», 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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