Buenos Aires, sentence 191
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.
The city's resident labor force of 1.2 million in 2001 was mostly employed in the services sector, particularly social services (25%), commerce and tourism (20%) and business and financial services (17%); despite the city's role as Argentina's capital, public administration employed only 6%.
What happens: employ · To what, where: resident labor force, services sector, public administration
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 force | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 city | case |
| 4 | resident | resident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 force | compound |
| 5 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 force | compound |
| 6 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 employed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 million | case |
| 8 | 1.2 | 1.2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 million | compound |
| 9 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 force | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 2001 | case |
| 11 | 2001 | 2001 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 million | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 employed | aux:pass |
| 13 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 14 employed | advmod |
| 14 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sector | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sector | det |
| 17 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sector | compound |
| 18 | sector | sector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 employed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 services | punct |
| 20 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 22 services | advmod |
| 21 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 services | amod |
| 22 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sector | appos |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 % | punct |
| 24 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 % | nummod |
| 25 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 22 services | appos |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 % | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 commerce | punct |
| 28 | commerce | commerce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 % | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 tourism | cc |
| 30 | tourism | tourism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 % | conj |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 % | punct |
| 32 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 % | nummod |
| 33 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 30 tourism | appos |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 % | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 business | cc |
| 36 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 % | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 services | cc |
| 38 | financial | financial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 services | amod |
| 39 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 % | conj |
| 40 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 % | punct |
| 41 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 % | nummod |
| 42 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 39 services | appos |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 % | punct |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 role | punct |
| 45 | despite | despite | ADP | _ | 49 role | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 city | det |
| 47 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 role | nmod:poss |
| 48 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 47 city | case |
| 49 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 employed | obl |
| 50 | as | as | ADP | _ | 53 capital | case |
| 51 | Argentina | Argentina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 capital | nmod:poss |
| 52 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 51 Argentina | case |
| 53 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 role | nmod |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 administration | punct |
| 55 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 administration | amod |
| 56 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 role | conj |
| 57 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 56 administration | acl |
| 58 | only | only | ADV | _ | 60 % | advmod |
| 59 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 60 % | nummod |
| 60 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 57 employed | obl |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 employed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | past · passive | the city's resident labor force of 1.2 million in 2001 | the services sector | despite the city's role as Argentina's capital and public administration; mostly property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | employ | participle | public administration not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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