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title: Facing the Chancellery is the Bundestag, the German Parliament, hous… — Berlin · tree and pragmatics
description: Facing the Chancellery is the Bundestag, the German Parliament, housed in the renovated Reichstag building since the government's relocation to Berlin in 1998. Who acts: Facing, government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Berlin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Berlin, sentence 298

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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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Facing the Chancellery is the Bundestag, the German Parliament, housed in the renovated Reichstag building since the government's relocation to Berlin in 1998.

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**Who acts:** Facing, government · **What happens:** face, be, house, renovate, relocate · **To what, where:** Chancellery, Bundestag, German Parliament, renovated Reichstag building

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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 (Facing, government), 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:298
# text = Facing the Chancellery is the Bundestag, the German Parliament, housed in the renovated Reichstag building since the government's relocation to Berlin in 1998.
1	Facing	face	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Chancellery	Chancellery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Bundestag	Bundestag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	housed	house	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	renovated	renovate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
16	Reichstag	Reichstag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	since	since	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	relocation	relocation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Berlin	Berlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	1998	1998	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | gerund |  |  | the Chancellery |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chancellery=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Facing | the Bundestag |  |  |  | the German Parliament *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **house** | participle |  | the German Parliament *not said here* |  | the renovated Reichstag building since the government's relocation to Berlin |  | in 1998 | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in building=Location |
| 4 | **renovate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **relocate** |  | the government |  |  |  |  | to Berlin | nom relocation «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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