Asunción, sentence 69
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.
At the end of the 1980s, the rural exodus began, contributing to the demographic increase —especially urban— of Central Department (part of current Greater Asunción).
Who acts: rural exodus · What happens: begin, contribute · To what, where: end, Central Department, demographic increase
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 (rural exodus), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 1980s | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 1980s | det |
| 6 | 1980s | 1980s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 exodus | det |
| 9 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 exodus | amod |
| 10 | exodus | exodus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 contributing | punct |
| 13 | contributing | contribute | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 increase | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 increase | det |
| 16 | demographic | demographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 increase | amod |
| 17 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 contributing | obl |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 urban | punct |
| 19 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 20 urban | advmod |
| 20 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 increase | amod |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Department | punct |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Department | case |
| 23 | Central | Central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Department | amod |
| 24 | Department | Department | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 contributing | obj |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 part | punct |
| 26 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Department | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 current | case |
| 28 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 part | nmod |
| 29 | Greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 Asunción | amod |
| 30 | Asunción | Asunción | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Department | list |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 contributing | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the rural exodus | at the end of the 1980s | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | contribute | gerund | the rural exodus not said here | Central Department Greater Asunción | the demographic increase | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent department=Theme to increase=Recipient |
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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