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title: The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region is one of the most prolific ce… — Berlin · tree and pragmatics
description: The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region is one of the most prolific centers of higher education and research in Germany and Europe. Who acts: Brandenburg capital region. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Berlin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Berlin, sentence 424

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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 Berlin-Brandenburg capital region is one of the most prolific centers of higher education and research in Germany and Europe.

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**Who acts:** Brandenburg capital region · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** one

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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 capital region), 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:424
# text = The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region is one of the most prolific centers of higher education and research in Germany and Europe.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	Berlin	Berlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Brandenburg	Brandenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	prolific	prolific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	centers	center	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Brandenburg capital region | one |  |  |  | of the prolific centers of higher education and research in Germany and Europe | 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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