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title: The phrase is used as a title for a number of political columns and… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: The phrase is used as a title for a number of political columns and news items by publications, including The Washington Times. Who acts: publications. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.C.» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 391

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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 phrase is used as a title for a number of political columns and news items by publications, including The Washington Times.

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**Who acts:** publications · **What happens:** use · **To what, where:** phrase

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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 (publications), 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.:391
# text = The phrase is used as a title for a number of political columns and news items by publications, including The Washington Times.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	columns	column	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	items	item	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	publications	publication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	including	including	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Times	Times	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive | publications | the phrase |  |  |  | as a title for a number of political columns and news items; including the Washington Times | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Duration as title=Attribute |

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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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