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title: Since the 19th century, high-level civil servants from the Dutch Eas… — The Hague · tree and pragmatics
description: Since the 19th century, high-level civil servants from the Dutch East Indies often spent long-term leave and vacations in The Hague. Who acts: level civil servants. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Hague» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Hague, sentence 134

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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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Since the 19th century, high-level civil servants from the Dutch East Indies often spent long-term leave and vacations in The Hague.

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**Who acts:** level civil servants · **What happens:** spend · **To what, where:** term leave, Hague

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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 (level civil servants), 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:134
# text = Since the 19th century, high-level civil servants from the Dutch East Indies often spent long-term leave and vacations in The Hague.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Indies	indy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	vacations	vacation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Hague	Hague	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | level civil servants from the Dutch East Indies | term leave and vacations |  | the Hague | century | often *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=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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