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title: Meridian Hill Park contains a cascading waterfall with Italian Renai… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: Meridian Hill Park contains a cascading waterfall with Italian Renaissance-style architecture. Who acts: Meridian. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.C.» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 177

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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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Meridian Hill Park contains a cascading waterfall with Italian Renaissance-style architecture.

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**Who acts:** Meridian · **What happens:** contain, cascade · **To what, where:** cascading waterfall

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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 (Meridian), 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.:177
# text = Meridian Hill Park contains a cascading waterfall with Italian Renaissance-style architecture.
1	Meridian	Meridian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Park	Park	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	cascading	cascade	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	waterfall	waterfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	Renaissance	Renaissance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | Meridian | a cascading waterfall |  |  |  | with Italian Renaissance style architecture | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot waterfall=Theme |
| 2 | **cascade** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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, «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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