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title: Substantial parts of present-day Berlin extend onto the low plateaus… — Berlin · tree and pragmatics
description: Substantial parts of present-day Berlin extend onto the low plateaus on both sides of the Spree Valley. Who acts: Substantial parts. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Berlin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Berlin, sentence 129

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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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Substantial parts of present-day Berlin extend onto the low plateaus on both sides of the Spree Valley.

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**Who acts:** Substantial parts · **What happens:** extend · **To what, where:** low plateaus

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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 (Substantial parts), 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:129
# text = Substantial parts of present-day Berlin extend onto the low plateaus on both sides of the Spree Valley.
1	Substantial	substantial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	Berlin	Berlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	extend	extend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	plateaus	plateau	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Spree	Spree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extend** | present | Substantial parts of present day |  |  | the low plateaus on both sides of the Spree Valley |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent onto plateau=Path |

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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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