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title: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) operates Wash… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) operates Washington Metro, the city's rapid transit rail system, which serves Washington, D.C. and its Maryland and Northern Virginia suburbs. Who acts: Area Transit Authority, rapid transit rail system. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 484

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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 Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) operates Washington Metro, the city's rapid transit rail system, which serves Washington, D.C. and its Maryland and Northern Virginia suburbs.

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**Who acts:** Area Transit Authority, rapid transit rail system · **What happens:** operate, serve · **To what, where:** Washington, Washington suburbs

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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 (Area Transit Authority, rapid transit rail system), 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.:484
# text = Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) operates Washington Metro, the city's rapid transit rail system, which serves Washington, D.C. and its Maryland and Northern Virginia suburbs.
1	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Metropolitan	Metropolitan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Area	Area	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	Transit	Transit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Authority	Authority	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	WMATA	WMATA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	operates	operate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	Metro	Metro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	transit	transit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	serves	serve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	D.C.	D.C.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	Maryland	Maryland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	Northern	Northern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Virginia	Virginia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
32	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **operate** | present | Area Transit Authority | Washington |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme washington=Attribute |
| 2 | **serve** | present | the city's rapid transit rail system | Washington suburbs |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suburb=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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