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title: The area used to be part of Rijswijk until the municipality of The H… — The Hague · tree and pragmatics
description: The area used to be part of Rijswijk until the municipality of The Hague bought the land in 1844. Who acts: area, municipality. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Hague» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Hague, sentence 98

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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 area used to be part of Rijswijk until the municipality of The Hague bought the land in 1844.

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**Who acts:** area, municipality · **What happens:** use, be, buy · **To what, where:** part, land, 1844

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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 (area, municipality), 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:98
# text = The area used to be part of Rijswijk until the municipality of The Hague bought the land in 1844.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Rijswijk	Rijswijk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	municipality	municipality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Hague	Hague	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1844	1844	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | the area |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the area *not said here* | part |  |  |  | of Rijswijk | tree rules |
| 3 | **buy** | past | the municipality of the Hague | the land |  | 1844 |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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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