Buenos Aires, sentence 316
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.
Two diagonal avenues alleviate traffic and provide better access to Plaza de Mayo and the city center in general; most avenues running into and out of it are one-way and feature six or more lanes, with computer-controlled green waves to speed up traffic outside of peak times.
Who acts: Two diagonal avenues, most avenues, access · What happens: alleviate, provide, run, be, control, speed up · To what, where: traffic, access, Plaza, one way
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 (Two diagonal avenues, most avenues, access), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 avenues | nummod |
| 2 | diagonal | diagonal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 avenues | amod |
| 3 | avenues | avenue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 alleviate | nsubj |
| 4 | alleviate | alleviate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 alleviate | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 provide | cc |
| 7 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 alleviate | conj |
| 8 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 access | advmod |
| 9 | access | access | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 provide | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Plaza | case |
| 11 | Plaza | Plaza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 access | nmod |
| 12 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Plaza | flat |
| 13 | Mayo | Mayo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Plaza | flat |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 center | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 center | det |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 center | compound |
| 17 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Plaza | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 general | case |
| 19 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 center | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 avenues | punct |
| 21 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 avenues | amod |
| 22 | avenues | avenue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 alleviate | parataxis |
| 23 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 avenues | acl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 running | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 way | cc |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 way | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 way | cop |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 way | nummod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 one | punct |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 avenues | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 feature | cc |
| 34 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 way | conj |
| 35 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 feature | flat |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 lanes | cc |
| 37 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 lanes | amod |
| 38 | lanes | lane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 way | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 waves | punct |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 waves | case |
| 41 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 controlled | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 computer | punct |
| 43 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 waves | amod |
| 44 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 waves | amod |
| 45 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 lanes | conj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 speed | mark |
| 47 | speed | speed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 waves | acl |
| 48 | up | up | ADP | _ | 47 speed | compound:prt |
| 49 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 speed | obj |
| 50 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 53 times | case |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 times | case |
| 52 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 times | compound |
| 53 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 traffic | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 alleviate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alleviate | present | Two diagonal avenues | traffic | most avenues and one way and feature or more lanes and controlled green waves parataxis | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent traffic=Patient | |||
| 2 | provide | infinitive | Two diagonal avenues not said here | access | Plaza and the city center in general | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent access=Theme to plaza=Recipient | |||
| 3 | run | gerund | most avenues and one way and feature or more lanes and controlled green waves not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | access | one way and feature or more lanes and controlled green waves | feature conj; more lanes and controlled green waves conj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | control | participle | computer compound | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | speed up | to-infinitive | access not said here | traffic | outside peak times | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traffic=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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