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title: Designed in 1791 by Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the city is split into… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: Designed in 1791 by Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the city is split into quadrants that meet at the Capitol Building, with 131 neighborhoods overall. Who acts: Pierre Charles, quadrants. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.C.» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 12

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From Wikipedia, [«Washington, D.C.»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.), 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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Designed in 1791 by Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the city is split into quadrants that meet at the Capitol Building, with 131 neighborhoods overall.

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**Who acts:** Pierre Charles, quadrants · **What happens:** design, split, meet · **To what, where:** 1791, city, quadrants, Capitol Building

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Washington, D.C.». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pierre Charles, quadrants), 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:Washington,_D.C.:12
# text = Designed in 1791 by Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the city is split into quadrants that meet at the Capitol Building, with 131 neighborhoods overall.
1	Designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	1791	1791	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Pierre	Pierre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl:agent	_	_
7	L'Enfant	L'Enfant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	quadrants	quadrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Capitol	Capitol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Building	Building	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	131	131	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	neighborhoods	neighborhood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
25	overall	overall	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **design** | participle |  |  |  | 1791 |  | Pierre Charles *obl:agent* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **split** | present · passive | Pierre Charles *not said here* | the city |  |  |  | into quadrants *result*; with 131 neighborhoods | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: subject=Patient into quadrant=Result with neighborhood=Instrument |
| 3 | **meet** | present | quadrants |  |  | the Capitol Building |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Washington, D.C.», 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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