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title: Many streets are named after places in the Netherlands East Indies (… — The Hague · tree and pragmatics
description: Many streets are named after places in the Netherlands East Indies (as well as other former Dutch colonies such as Suriname), and there is a sizable "Indo" (i.e., mixed Dutch-Indonesian) community. Who acts: a. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Hague» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Hague, sentence 135

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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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Many streets are named after places in the Netherlands East Indies (as well as other former Dutch colonies such as Suriname), and there is a sizable "Indo" (i.e., mixed Dutch-Indonesian) community.

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**Who acts:** a · **What happens:** name, be, mix · **To what, where:** Many streets, Dutch Indonesian community

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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 (a), 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:135
# text = Many streets are named after places in the Netherlands East Indies (as well as other former Dutch colonies such as Suriname), and there is a sizable "Indo" (i.e., mixed Dutch-Indonesian) community.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Indies	indy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	19	cc	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	Suriname	Suriname	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	nsubj	_	_
29	sizable	sizable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Indo	Indo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
37	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Indonesian	Indonesian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
41	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | present · passive |  | Many streets |  |  | after places in the East Indies |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | a |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mix** | participle |  | Dutch Indonesian community |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent community=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, «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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