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title: Washington, D.C. has two major annual marathon races, the Marine Cor… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: Washington, D.C. has two major annual marathon races, the Marine Corps Marathon, held every autumn, and the Rock 'n' Roll USA Marathon, held each spring. Who acts: Washington, Rock. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.C.» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 372

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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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Washington, D.C. has two major annual marathon races, the Marine Corps Marathon, held every autumn, and the Rock 'n' Roll USA Marathon, held each spring.

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**Who acts:** Washington, Rock · **What happens:** have, hold · **To what, where:** two major annual marathon races, Marine Corps Marathon

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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, Rock), 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.:372
# text = Washington, D.C. has two major annual marathon races, the Marine Corps Marathon, held every autumn, and the Rock 'n' Roll USA Marathon, held each spring.
1	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	D.C.	D.C.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
6	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	marathon	marathon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Marine	Marine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	Corps	Corps	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Marathon	Marathon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
23	'n	'n	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
25	Roll	Roll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	Marathon	Marathon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
29	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Washington | two major annual marathon races  the Marine Corps Marathon |  |  |  | D.C. *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Patient |
| 2 | **hold** | participle |  | the Marine Corps Marathon *not said here* |  |  | autumn |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | past | the Rock |  |  |  | spring |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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