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description: The Plein (meaning "Plaza" or "Town square") is taken by several large sidewalk cafés, where often politicians may be spotted. Who acts: Plein, several large sidewalk cafés. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Hague» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Hague, sentence 236

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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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The Plein (meaning "Plaza" or "Town square") is taken by several large sidewalk cafés, where often politicians may be spotted.

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**Who acts:** Plein, several large sidewalk cafés · **What happens:** mean, take, spot · **To what, where:** Plaza, Plein, politicians

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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 (Plein, several large sidewalk cafés), 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:236
# text = The Plein (meaning "Plaza" or "Town square") is taken by several large sidewalk cafés, where often politicians may be spotted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Plein	Plein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Plaza	Plaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	sidewalk	sidewalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	cafés	café	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
23	often	often	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	spotted	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | gerund | the Plein *not said here* | Plaza or Town square |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plaza=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | present · passive | several large sidewalk cafés | the Plein |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination |
| 3 | **spot** | may · passive |  | politicians |  |  |  | often *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |

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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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