Bogotá, sentence 233
From Wikipedia, «Bogotá», 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.
These initiatives tried to update the undeveloped city to the new technologies of the 1800s; however, the pace remained slow, and only after 1882, when the train and the trolley came to Bogotá, some urban development projects progressed more quickly.
Who acts: initiatives, pace, train, urban development projects · What happens: try, update, remain, come, progress · To what, where: undeveloped city, Bogotá
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bogotá». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (initiatives, pace, train, urban development projects), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 initiatives | det |
| 2 | initiatives | initiative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 update | mark |
| 5 | update | update | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 7 | undeveloped | undeveloped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 city | amod |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 update | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 technologies | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 technologies | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 technologies | amod |
| 12 | technologies | technology | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 update | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 1800s | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 1800s | det |
| 15 | 1800s | 1800 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 12 technologies | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 remained | punct |
| 17 | however | however | ADV | _ | 21 remained | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 however | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pace | det |
| 20 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 remained | nsubj |
| 21 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 22 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 remained | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 came | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 came | cc |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 1882 | advmod |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 1882 | case |
| 27 | 1882 | 1882 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 came | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 came | punct |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 came | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 train | det |
| 31 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 came | nsubj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 trolley | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 trolley | det |
| 34 | trolley | trolley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 train | conj |
| 35 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | parataxis |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 Bogotá | case |
| 37 | Bogotá | Bogotá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 came | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 progressed | punct |
| 39 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 projects | det |
| 40 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 projects | amod |
| 41 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 projects | compound |
| 42 | projects | project | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 progressed | nsubj |
| 43 | progressed | progress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 came | conj |
| 44 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 45 quickly | advmod |
| 45 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 43 progressed | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | this initiatives | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | update speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | this initiatives not said here | the undeveloped city | to the new technologies of the 1800s | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent city=Recipient | |||
| 3 | remain | past | the pace | however, slow property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the train and the trolley | Bogotá | after 1882 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bogotá=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | progress | past | some urban development projects | quickly property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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