Buenos Aires, sentence 153
From Wikipedia, «Buenos Aires», 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.
It was the first major snowfall in the city in 89 years.
Who acts: Snow · What happens: be · To what, where: first major snowfall, city
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Buenos Aires». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 snowfall | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 snowfall | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snowfall | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 snowfall | amod |
| 5 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 snowfall | amod |
| 6 | snowfall | snowfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snowfall | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | 89 | 89 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 city | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 snowfall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Snow | the first major snowfall | the city in 89 years | 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.
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