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title: However, the individual boroughs are not independent municipalities,… — Berlin · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the individual boroughs are not independent municipalities, but subordinate to the Senate of Berlin. Who acts: individual boroughs, independent municipalities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Berlin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Berlin, sentence 289

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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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However, the individual boroughs are not independent municipalities, but subordinate to the Senate of Berlin.

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**Who acts:** individual boroughs, independent municipalities · **What happens:** not be, subordinate · **To what, where:** independent municipalities

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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 (individual boroughs, independent municipalities), 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:289
# text = However, the individual boroughs are not independent municipalities, but subordinate to the Senate of Berlin.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	individual	individual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boroughs	borough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	municipalities	municipality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	subordinate	subordinate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Senate	Senate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Berlin	Berlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | the individual boroughs | independent municipalities |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **subordinate** | infinitive | independent municipalities *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Senate of Berlin | 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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