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title: The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Galler… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery are housed in the Old Patent Office Building near Washington's Chinatown. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.C.» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 322

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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 Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery are housed in the Old Patent Office Building near Washington's Chinatown.

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**What happens:** house · **To what, where:** Smithsonian American Art Museum, Old Office Building

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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.:322
# text = The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery are housed in the Old Patent Office Building near Washington's Chinatown.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Smithsonian	Smithsonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	American	American	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Museum	Museum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Portrait	Portrait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Gallery	Gallery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	housed	house	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	Patent	Patent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Office	Office	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Building	Building	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	near	near	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	Chinatown	Chinatown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **house** | present · passive |  | the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery |  | the Old Office Building near Washington's Chinatown |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in building=Location |

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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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