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title: Most federal buildings were repaired quickly, but the Capitol, which… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: Most federal buildings were repaired quickly, but the Capitol, which was then still under construction, was not completed in its current form until 1868. Who acts: Capitol, construction. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.C.» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 54

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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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Most federal buildings were repaired quickly, but the Capitol, which was then still under construction, was not completed in its current form until 1868.

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**Who acts:** Capitol, construction · **What happens:** repair, be, not complete, form · **To what, where:** Most federal buildings, construction, Capitol, current form

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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 (Capitol, construction), 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.:54
# text = Most federal buildings were repaired quickly, but the Capitol, which was then still under construction, was not completed in its current form until 1868.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	repaired	repair	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Capitol	Capitol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	completed	complete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	until	until	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	1868	1868	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repair** | past · passive |  | Most federal buildings |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Capitol and construction |  |  | construction | then; still |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **complete** | past · passive |  | the Capitol and construction |  | construction's current form | until 1868 |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **form** |  | construction |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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