Buenos Aires, sentence 210
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.
They started the dry cleaning business in Argentina, an activity that is considered idiosyncratic to them.
Who acts: immigrants · What happens: start, consider · To what, where: dry cleaning business, Argentina, activity
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 (immigrants), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 business | det |
| 4 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 business | amod |
| 5 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 business | compound |
| 6 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 started | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Argentina | case |
| 8 | Argentina | Argentina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 started | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 activity | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 activity | det |
| 11 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Argentina | appos |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 considered | aux:pass |
| 14 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 activity | acl:relcl |
| 15 | idiosyncratic | idiosyncratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 considered | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 idiosyncratic | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | immigrants = immigrant | the dry cleaning business | Argentina | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | consider | present · passive | a activity | idiosyncratic property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
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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