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title: Formed from land donated by Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: Formed from land donated by Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 mi on each side and totaling 100 sqmi. Who acts: Formed land, square. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.C.» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 39

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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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Formed from land donated by Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 mi on each side and totaling 100 sqmi.

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**Who acts:** Formed land, square · **What happens:** form, donate, be, measure, total · **To what, where:** Formed land, square, 10 mi, side, 100 sqmi

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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 (Formed land, square), 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.:39
# text = Formed from land donated by Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 mi on each side and totaling 100 sqmi.
1	Formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
4	donated	donate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Maryland	Maryland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Virginia	Virginia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	initial	initial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	measuring	measure	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	mi	mi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	totaling	total	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	conj	_	_
28	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	sqmi	sqmi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **donate** | participle |  | Formed land *not said here* |  |  |  | Maryland and Virginia *obl:agent* | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Formed land | a square |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **measure** | gerund | a square *not said here* | 10 mi |  | each side |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme mi=Value |
| 5 | **total** | gerund | a square *not said here* | 100 sqmi |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sqmi=Patient |

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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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