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title: Partly as a result of gentrification, there was a 31.4% increase in… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: Partly as a result of gentrification, there was a 31.4% increase in the non-Hispanic white population and an 11.5% decrease in the black population between 2000 and 2010. Who acts: result. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.C.» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 213

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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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Partly as a result of gentrification, there was a 31.4% increase in the non-Hispanic white population and an 11.5% decrease in the black population between 2000 and 2010.

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**Who acts:** result · **What happens:** be, result · **To what, where:** % increase, non-Hispanic white population, gentrification

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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 (result), 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.:213
# text = Partly as a result of gentrification, there was a 31.4% increase in the non-Hispanic white population and an 11.5% decrease in the black population between 2000 and 2010.
1	Partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gentrification	gentrification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	31.4	31.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	non-Hispanic	non-hispanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	11.5	11.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	22	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	decrease	decrease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	between	between	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | a result of gentrification | a % increase |  | the non-Hispanic white population and a % decrease in the black population between 2000 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **result** |  |  | gentrification |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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