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title: Approximately halfway from the Brandenburg Gate is the Großer Stern,… — Berlin · tree and pragmatics
description: Approximately halfway from the Brandenburg Gate is the Großer Stern, a circular traffic island on which the Siegessäule (Victory Column) is situated. Who acts: Brandenburg Gate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Berlin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Berlin, sentence 183

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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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Approximately halfway from the Brandenburg Gate is the Großer Stern, a circular traffic island on which the Siegessäule (Victory Column) is situated.

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**Who acts:** Brandenburg Gate · **What happens:** be, situate · **To what, where:** Großer Stern, Siegessäule, circular traffic island

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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 (Brandenburg Gate), 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:183
# text = Approximately halfway from the Brandenburg Gate is the Großer Stern, a circular traffic island on which the Siegessäule (Victory Column) is situated.
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	halfway	halfway	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Brandenburg	Brandenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Gate	Gate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Großer	Großer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Stern	Stern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	circular	circular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Siegessäule	Siegessäule	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Victory	Victory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Column	Column	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Brandenburg Gate |  |  | the Großer Stern |  | a circular traffic island *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **situate** | present · passive |  | the Siegessäule |  | a circular traffic island |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination |

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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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