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title: Among the city's major jazz locations were the Lincoln Theatre and t… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the city's major jazz locations were the Lincoln Theatre and the Howard Theatre. Who acts: major jazz locations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.C.» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 288

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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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Among the city's major jazz locations were the Lincoln Theatre and the Howard Theatre.

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**Who acts:** major jazz locations · **What happens:** 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 (major jazz locations), 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.:288
# text = Among the city's major jazz locations were the Lincoln Theatre and the Howard Theatre.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	jazz	jazz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	locations	location	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Lincoln	Lincoln	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Howard	Howard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | major jazz locations |  |  |  |  | among the city's Lincoln Theatre and the Howard Theatre; the city *nmod:poss*; the Howard Theatre *conj* | 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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