Buenos Aires, sentence 227
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.
A phonetic study conducted by the Laboratory for Sensory Investigations of CONICET and the University of Toronto showed that the prosody of porteño is closer to the Neapolitan language of Italy than to any other spoken language.
Who acts: phonetic study, prosody · What happens: conduct, show, be, speak, investigate · To what, where: phonetic study, CONICET · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (phonetic study, prosody), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 study | det |
| 2 | phonetic | phonetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 study | amod |
| 3 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 showed | nsubj |
| 4 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 study | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Laboratory | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Laboratory | det |
| 7 | Laboratory | Laboratory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 conducted | obl:agent |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Investigations | case |
| 9 | Sensory | sensory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Investigations | amod |
| 10 | Investigations | investigation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 conducted | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 CONICET | case |
| 12 | CONICET | CONICET | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Investigations | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 University | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 University | det |
| 15 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 CONICET | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Toronto | case |
| 17 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 University | nmod |
| 18 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 closer | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prosody | det |
| 21 | prosody | prosody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 closer | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 porteño | case |
| 23 | porteño | porteño | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 prosody | nmod |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 closer | cop |
| 25 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 showed | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 language | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 language | det |
| 28 | Neapolitan | Neapolitan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 language | compound |
| 29 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 closer | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Italy | case |
| 31 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 language | nmod |
| 32 | than | than | ADP | _ | 37 language | case |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 language | case |
| 34 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 language | det |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 language | amod |
| 36 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 language | amod |
| 37 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 closer | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | participle | a phonetic study not said here | for Sensory Investigations of CONICET and the University of Toronto; the Laboratory obl:agent | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | show | past | a phonetic study | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the prosody of porteño | to the Neapolitan language of Italy; than any other spoken language; close property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | participle | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | investigate | CONICET and the University of Toronto | nom investigation «cognition transitive»: of=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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