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title: The motorway (Autobahn) is widely known for having no general federa… — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: The motorway (Autobahn) is widely known for having no general federally mandated speed limit for some classes of vehicles. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Germany» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Germany, sentence 266

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From Wikipedia, [«Germany»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany), 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 motorway (Autobahn) is widely known for having no general federally mandated speed limit for some classes of vehicles.

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**What happens:** know, have, mandate · **To what, where:** motorway, general mandated speed limit

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Germany». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Germany:266
# text = The motorway (Autobahn) is widely known for having no general federally mandated speed limit for some classes of vehicles.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	motorway	motorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Autobahn	Autobahn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
12	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	federally	federally	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	mandated	mandate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
15	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	limit	limit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	classes	class	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	vehicles	vehicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | the motorway |  |  |  | widely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | gerund |  | no general mandated speed limit |  |  |  | for some classes of vehicles | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limit=Patient |
| 3 | **mandate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | federally *property* | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Germany», 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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