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title: In 2021, the urban area of Berlin had a population of over 4.6 milli… — Berlin · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2021, the urban area of Berlin had a population of over 4.6 million inhabitants. as of 2019, the functional urban area was home to about 5.2 million people. Who acts: urban area, functional urban area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Berlin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Berlin, sentence 206

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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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In 2021, the urban area of Berlin had a population of over 4.6 million inhabitants. as of 2019, the functional urban area was home to about 5.2 million people.

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**Who acts:** urban area, functional urban area · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** population, 2021

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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 (urban area, functional urban 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:206
# text = In 2021, the urban area of Berlin had a population of over 4.6 million inhabitants. as of 2019, the functional urban area was home to about 5.2 million people.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Berlin	Berlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	over	over	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	4.6	4.6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	functional	functional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	5.2	5.2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	compound	_	_
31	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the urban area of Berlin | a population of million inhabitants |  | 2021 |  | as 2019 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the functional urban area |  |  |  |  | to million people; home *property* | tree rules |

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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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