Asunción, sentence 192
From Wikipedia, «Asunción», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Between 1962 and 1992, the capital city registered a more than double increase in inhabitants and is currently the only city in Paraguay to have almost 500,000 inhabitants, surpassing other large urban centers such as Ciudad del Este and San Lorenzo.
Who acts: capital city, other large urban centers · What happens: register, be, have, surpass, del · To what, where: double increase, inhabitants, only city, Paraguay, 500,000 inhabitants, Este
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Asunción». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (capital city, other large urban centers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 2 1962 | case |
| 2 | 1962 | 1962 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 registered | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 1992 | cc |
| 4 | 1992 | 1992 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1962 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1962 | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 7 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 city | amod |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 registered | nsubj |
| 9 | registered | register | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 increase | det |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 14 increase | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 more | fixed |
| 13 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 increase | amod |
| 14 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 registered | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 inhabitants | case |
| 16 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 increase | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 city | cc |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 city | cop |
| 19 | currently | currently | ADV | _ | 22 city | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 city | det |
| 21 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 city | amod |
| 22 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 increase | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Paraguay | case |
| 24 | Paraguay | Paraguay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 city | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 have | mark |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 registered | advcl |
| 27 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 28 500,000 | advmod |
| 28 | 500,000 | 500,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 inhabitants | nummod |
| 29 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 have | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 surpassing | punct |
| 31 | surpassing | surpass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 registered | advcl |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 centers | amod |
| 33 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 centers | amod |
| 34 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 centers | amod |
| 35 | centers | center | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 del | nsubj |
| 36 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 38 Ciudad | case |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 such | fixed |
| 38 | Ciudad | Ciudad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 centers | nmod |
| 39 | del | del | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 surpassing | ccomp |
| 40 | Este | Este | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 del | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 San | cc |
| 42 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Este | conj |
| 43 | Lorenzo | Lorenzo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 San | flat |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 registered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | register | past | the capital city | a double increase and the only city | inhabitants | between 1962 | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent increase=Theme | ||
| 2 | is a | present | the capital city not said here | the only city | Paraguay | currently property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | the capital city not said here | 500,000 inhabitants | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Patient | ||||
| 4 | surpass | gerund | the capital city not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | del | past | other large urban centers such Ciudad | Este and San | tree rules |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Asunción», 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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