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title: In 1871, Berlin became capital of the newly founded German Empire. — Berlin · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1871, Berlin became capital of the newly founded German Empire. Who acts: Berlin. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Berlin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Berlin, sentence 72

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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 1871, Berlin became capital of the newly founded German Empire.

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**Who acts:** Berlin · **What happens:** become, be · **To what, where:** capital, 1871

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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 (Berlin), 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:72
# text = In 1871, Berlin became capital of the newly founded German Empire.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1871	1871	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Berlin	Berlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Berlin | capital |  |  |  | in 1871 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1871=Result |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the German Empire; newly *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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