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title: Since D.C. does not have enough shelter units available, every winte… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: Since D.C. does not have enough shelter units available, every winter it books hotel rooms in the suburbs with an average cost of around $100 for a night. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.C.» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 205

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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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Since D.C. does not have enough shelter units available, every winter it books hotel rooms in the suburbs with an average cost of around $100 for a night.

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**What happens:** not have · **To what, where:** enough shelter units

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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: 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.:205
# text = Since D.C. does not have enough shelter units available, every winter it books hotel rooms in the suburbs with an average cost of around $100 for a night.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	D.C.	D.C.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	units	unit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	available	available	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
14	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	hotel	hotel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	around	around	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	$	$	SYM	$	_	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present · do-support |  | enough shelter units and every winter  hotel rooms  freezing in the suburbs with a average cost |  |  | since D.C. |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unit=Patient |

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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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