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title: The President of Germany, whose functions are mainly ceremonial unde… — Berlin · tree and pragmatics
description: The President of Germany, whose functions are mainly ceremonial under the German constitution, has their official residence in Bellevue Palace. Who acts: functions, President. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Berlin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Berlin, sentence 296

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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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The President of Germany, whose functions are mainly ceremonial under the German constitution, has their official residence in Bellevue Palace.

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**Who acts:** functions, President · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** German constitution, official residence, Bellevue Palace

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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 (functions, President), 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:296
# text = The President of Germany, whose functions are mainly ceremonial under the German constitution, has their official residence in Bellevue Palace.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	functions	function	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	ceremonial	ceremonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Bellevue	Bellevue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | functions |  |  | the German constitution |  | ceremonial, mainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | the President and Germany | functions's official residence |  | Bellevue Palace |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent residence=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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