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title: Several community and specialty papers focus on neighborhood and cul… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: Several community and specialty papers focus on neighborhood and cultural issues, including the weekly Washington Blade and Metro Weekly, which focus on LGBT issues; the Washington Informer and The Washington Afro American, which highlight topics of interest to the black community; and neighborhood 
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 459

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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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Several community and specialty papers focus on neighborhood and cultural issues, including the weekly Washington Blade and Metro Weekly, which focus on LGBT issues; the Washington Informer and The Washington Afro American, which highlight topics of interest to the black community; and neighborhood newspapers published by The Current Newspapers.

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**Who acts:** community papers, Washington Informer · **What happens:** focus, highlight, publish · **To what, where:** focus, topics, neighborhood newspapers

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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 (community papers, Washington Informer), 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.:459
# text = Several community and specialty papers focus on neighborhood and cultural issues, including the weekly Washington Blade and Metro Weekly, which focus on LGBT issues; the Washington Informer and The Washington Afro American, which highlight topics of interest to the black community; and neighborhood newspapers published by The Current Newspapers.
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	specialty	specialty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	focus	focus	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	issues	issue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	including	including	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	weekly	weekly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Blade	Blade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Metro	Metro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	Weekly	weekly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	23	det	_	_
23	focus	focus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	LGBT	lgbt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	issues	issue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Informer	Informer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Afro	Afro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	American	American	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	highlight	highlight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
39	topics	topic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
50	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl	_	_
51	by	by	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	Current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	Newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **focus** | present | community papers | which focus on LGBT issues |  |  |  | on neighborhood and cultural issues including the weekly Washington Blade and Metro; neighborhood newspapers *parataxis*; weekly *property* | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on neighborhood=Topic |
| 2 | **highlight** | present | the Washington Informer | topics of interest to the black community |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent topic=Patient |
| 3 | **publish** | participle |  | neighborhood newspapers *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Current Newspapers | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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