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title: The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its main f… — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Who acts: capital, main financial centre, largest urban area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Germany» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Germany, sentence 5

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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 nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr.

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**Who acts:** capital, main financial centre, largest urban area · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Berlin, Frankfurt, Ruhr

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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: who acts (capital, main financial centre, largest urban 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:Germany:5
# text = The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	populous	populous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	Berlin	Berlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	financial	financial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	Frankfurt	Frankfurt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
21	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Ruhr	ruhr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 nation's capital and populous city | Berlin and Frankfurt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | city's main financial centre | Frankfurt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the largest urban area | the Ruhr |  |  |  |  | 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, «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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