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title: They resemble ordinary Dutch municipalities in most ways (with a may… — Kingdom of the Netherlands · tree and pragmatics
description: They resemble ordinary Dutch municipalities in most ways (with a mayor, aldermen, and a municipal council, for example) and are subject to the ordinary Dutch legislative process. Who acts: municipalities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kingdom of the Netherlands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kingdom of the Netherlands, sentence 85

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From Wikipedia, [«Kingdom of the Netherlands»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands), 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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They resemble ordinary Dutch municipalities in most ways (with a mayor, aldermen, and a municipal council, for example) and are subject to the ordinary Dutch legislative process.

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**Who acts:** municipalities · **What happens:** resemble, be · **To what, where:** ordinary Dutch municipalities, most ways

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kingdom of the Netherlands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (municipalities), 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:Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands:85
# text = They resemble ordinary Dutch municipalities in most ways (with a mayor, aldermen, and a municipal council, for example) and are subject to the ordinary Dutch legislative process.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	resemble	resemble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	municipalities	municipality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	aldermen	alderman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	subject	subject	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	legislative	legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resemble** | present | municipalities *= municipality* | ordinary Dutch municipalities |  | most ways |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | municipalities *= municipality* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the ordinary Dutch legislative process; subject *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, «Kingdom of the Netherlands», 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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