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title: As a result, Copenhagen has become the centre of a larger metropolit… — Copenhagen · tree and pragmatics
description: As a result, Copenhagen has become the centre of a larger metropolitan area spanning both nations. Who acts: Copenhagen, larger metropolitan area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Copenhagen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Copenhagen, sentence 150

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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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As a result, Copenhagen has become the centre of a larger metropolitan area spanning both nations.

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**Who acts:** Copenhagen, larger metropolitan area · **What happens:** become, span · **To what, where:** centre, nations

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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 (Copenhagen, larger metropolitan area), 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:150
# text = As a result, Copenhagen has become the centre of a larger metropolitan area spanning both nations.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
13	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	spanning	span	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present · perfect | Copenhagen | the centre of a larger metropolitan area |  |  |  | as a result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **span** | gerund | a larger metropolitan area *not said here* | both nations |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nation=Co-Theme |

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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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