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title: Since 2020, the basketball club The Hague Royals has played in the p… — The Hague · tree and pragmatics
description: Since 2020, the basketball club The Hague Royals has played in the professional Dutch Basketball League (DBL). A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Hague» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Hague, sentence 272

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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 2020, the basketball club The Hague Royals has played in the professional Dutch Basketball League (DBL).

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**What happens:** play · **To what, where:** basketball club

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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: 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:272
# text = Since 2020, the basketball club The Hague Royals has played in the professional Dutch Basketball League (DBL).
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	basketball	basketball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Hague	Hague	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Royals	Royals	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	professional	professional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Basketball	Basketball	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	DBL	DBL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present · perfect · passive |  | the basketball club |  |  | since 2020 | in the professional Dutch Basketball League | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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