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title: The city grew into being one of America's most important music citie… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: The city grew into being one of America's most important music cities in the early Jazz Age. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.C.» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 285

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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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The city grew into being one of America's most important music cities in the early Jazz Age.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** grow, be

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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 (city), 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.:285
# text = The city grew into being one of America's most important music cities in the early Jazz Age.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Jazz	Jazz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the city |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | into one; of America's important music cities in the early Jazz Age | tree rules |

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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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