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title: It was remodeled by British architect Norman Foster in the 1990s and… — Berlin · tree and pragmatics
description: It was remodeled by British architect Norman Foster in the 1990s and features a glass dome over the session area, which allows free public access to the parliamentary proceedings and magnificent views of the city. Who acts: British, session area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Berlin» with its dependenc
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# Berlin, sentence 160

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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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It was remodeled by British architect Norman Foster in the 1990s and features a glass dome over the session area, which allows free public access to the parliamentary proceedings and magnificent views of the city.

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**Who acts:** British, session area · **What happens:** remodel, architect, allow, view · **To what, where:** building, Norman Foster, 1990s, free public access, parliamentary proceedings, city

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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 (British, session area), 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:160
# text = It was remodeled by British architect Norman Foster in the 1990s and features a glass dome over the session area, which allows free public access to the parliamentary proceedings and magnificent views of the city.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	remodeled	remodel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
6	architect	architect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	Norman	norman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	session	session	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	allows	allow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	parliamentary	parliamentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	proceedings	proceedings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	26	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remodel** | past · passive |  | building |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **architect** | present | British | Norman Foster |  | the 1990s  a glass dome over the session area and features |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **allow** | present | the session area | free public access |  |  |  | to the parliamentary proceedings and magnificent views of the city *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent access=Theme to proceedings=Goal |
| 4 | **view** |  |  | the city |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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