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title: Instead, it has some small streets in the town centre that may be da… — The Hague · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead, it has some small streets in the town centre that may be dated from the late Middle Ages and several spacious streets boasting large and luxurious 18th-century residences built for diplomats and affluent Dutch families. Who acts: city, several spacious streets. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Th
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# The Hague, sentence 122

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From Wikipedia, [«The Hague»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hague), 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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Instead, it has some small streets in the town centre that may be dated from the late Middle Ages and several spacious streets boasting large and luxurious 18th-century residences built for diplomats and affluent Dutch families.

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**Who acts:** city, several spacious streets · **What happens:** have, date, boast, build · **To what, where:** small streets, town centre, late Middle Ages, large century residences

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «The Hague». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, several spacious streets), 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:The_Hague:122
# text = Instead, it has some small streets in the town centre that may be dated from the late Middle Ages and several spacious streets boasting large and luxurious 18th-century residences built for diplomats and affluent Dutch families.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	dated	date	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
20	Ages	Age	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	spacious	spacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
25	boasting	boast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	luxurious	luxurious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	18th	18th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	residences	residence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
33	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	diplomats	diplomat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	affluent	affluent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | city | some small streets and several spacious streets |  | the town centre |  | instead *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Patient |
| 2 | **date** | may · passive |  | the town centre |  |  | from the late Middle Ages |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **boast** *speech: other* | gerund | several spacious streets *not said here* | large century residences |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **build** | participle |  | large century residences *not said here* |  |  |  | for diplomats and affluent Dutch families | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for diplomat=Asset |

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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, «The Hague», 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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