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title: The British suffered almost 200 casualties, while the Danish suffere… — Copenhagen · tree and pragmatics
description: The British suffered almost 200 casualties, while the Danish suffered 3,000. Who acts: British, Danish. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Copenhagen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Copenhagen, sentence 106

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From Wikipedia, [«Copenhagen»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen), 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 British suffered almost 200 casualties, while the Danish suffered 3,000.

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**Who acts:** British, Danish · **What happens:** suffer · **To what, where:** 200 casualties, 3,000

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Copenhagen». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (British, Danish), 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:Copenhagen:106
# text = The British suffered almost 200 casualties, while the Danish suffered 3,000.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	casualties	casualty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Danish	Danish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	3,000	3000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | past | the British | 200 casualties |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer casualty=Stimulus |
| 2 | **suffer** | past | the Danish | 3,000 |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer 3000=Stimulus |

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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, «Copenhagen», 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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