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title: The Washington Wizards (previously Bullets) of the National Basketba… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: The Washington Wizards (previously Bullets) of the National Basketball Association and the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League play at Capital One Arena. Who acts: Washington Wizards. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.C.» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 364

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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 Washington Wizards (previously Bullets) of the National Basketball Association and the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League play at Capital One Arena.

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**Who acts:** Washington Wizards · **What happens:** play · **To what, where:** One Arena, Capital

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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 (Washington Wizards), 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.:364
# text = The Washington Wizards (previously Bullets) of the National Basketball Association and the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League play at Capital One Arena.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Wizards	wizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	Bullets	bullet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Basketball	Basketball	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Association	Association	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Capitals	Capital	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Hockey	Hockey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	Arena	Arena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association and the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League | One Arena |  | Capital |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arena=Theme |

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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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