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title: In November 2008, it was decided to introduce the U.S. dollar in the… — Kingdom of the Netherlands · tree and pragmatics
description: In November 2008, it was decided to introduce the U.S. dollar in the three islands. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kingdom of the Netherlands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kingdom of the Netherlands, sentence 89

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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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In November 2008, it was decided to introduce the U.S. dollar in the three islands.

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**What happens:** decide, introduce · **To what, where:** security, U.S. dollar, three islands

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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: 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:89
# text = In November 2008, it was decided to introduce the U.S. dollar in the three islands.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	decided	decide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	introduce	introduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past · passive |  | security |  |  | november |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **introduce** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the U.S. dollar |  | the three islands |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Patient |

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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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