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title: The United States Supreme Court Building was completed in 1935; befo… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: The United States Supreme Court Building was completed in 1935; before then, the court held sessions in the Old Senate Chamber of the Capitol. Who acts: court. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.C.» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 352

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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 United States Supreme Court Building was completed in 1935; before then, the court held sessions in the Old Senate Chamber of the Capitol.

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**Who acts:** court · **What happens:** complete, hold · **To what, where:** Court Building, 1935, sessions, Old Senate Chamber

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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 (court), 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.:352
# text = The United States Supreme Court Building was completed in 1935; before then, the court held sessions in the Old Senate Chamber of the Capitol.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
4	Supreme	Supreme	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Building	Building	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	completed	complete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1935	1935	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	before	before	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	sessions	session	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Senate	Senate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Chamber	Chamber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Capitol	Capitol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complete** | past · passive |  | the Court Building |  | 1935 |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hold** | past | the court | sessions |  | the Old Senate Chamber of the Capitol | then |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent session=Theme in chamber=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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