Asunción, sentence 63
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.
A tramway in Asunción opened in 1871, initially using horse-drawn trams and steam-powered trams, with electric trams being introduced in 1913.
Who acts: tramway · What happens: open, use, draw, power, introduce · To what, where: 1871, drawn trams, electric trams, 1913
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 (tramway), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tramway | det |
| 2 | tramway | tramway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Asunción | case |
| 4 | Asunción | Asunción | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tramway | nmod |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1871 | case |
| 7 | 1871 | 1871 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 opened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 using | punct |
| 9 | initially | initially | ADV | _ | 10 using | advmod |
| 10 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 opened | advcl |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drawn | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 horse | punct |
| 13 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 trams | amod |
| 14 | trams | tram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 using | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 trams | cc |
| 16 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 powered | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 steam | punct |
| 18 | powered | power | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 trams | amod |
| 19 | trams | tram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 trams | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 introduced | punct |
| 21 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 25 introduced | mark |
| 22 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 trams | amod |
| 23 | trams | tram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 introduced | aux:pass |
| 25 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 opened | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 1913 | case |
| 27 | 1913 | 1913 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 introduced | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | a tramway in Asunción | 1871 | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1871=Location | ||||
| 2 | use | gerund | a tramway in Asunción not said here | drawn trams and powered trams | initially property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tram=Patient | |||
| 3 | draw | participle | horse compound | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | power | participle | steam compound | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | introduce | gerund · passive | electric trams | 1913 | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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