Buenos Aires, sentence 16
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 constitutes the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas.
Who acts: conurbation · What happens: constitute · To what, where: fourth most populous metropolitan area, Americas
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 (conurbation), 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 | 2 constitutes | nsubj |
| 2 | constitutes | constitute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 area | det |
| 4 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 area | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 fourth | punct |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 area | amod |
| 7 | populous | populous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 area | amod |
| 8 | metropolitan | metropolitan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 area | compound |
| 9 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 constitutes | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Americas | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Americas | det |
| 12 | Americas | AMERICAS | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 area | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 constitutes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | constitute | present | conurbation | the fourth most populous metropolitan area | the Americas | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme area=Pivot |
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