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title: Under the Residence Act, the exact location was to be selected by Pr… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the Residence Act, the exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, who signed the bill into law on July 16, 1790. Who acts: George. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.C.» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 38

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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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Under the Residence Act, the exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, who signed the bill into law on July 16, 1790.

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**Who acts:** George · **What happens:** select, sign · **To what, where:** exact location, Residence Act, bill, law

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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 (George), 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.:38
# text = Under the Residence Act, the exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, who signed the bill into law on July 16, 1790.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Residence	Residence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl:agent	_	_
16	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	1790	1790	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | past · passive | George  President | the exact location |  | the Residence Act |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **sign** | past | George  President | the bill |  | law |  | on 16  July  1790 | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent bill=Theme into law=Destination |

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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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