Buenos Aires, sentence 4
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 proper has a population of 3.1 million and its urban area has a population of 16.7 million, making it the 21st most populous metropolitan area in the world.
Who acts: city proper, urban area · What happens: have, make · To what, where: population
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 (city proper, urban area), 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 | 3 proper | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proper | compound |
| 3 | proper | proper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 population | det |
| 6 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 million | case |
| 8 | 3.1 | 3.1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 million | compound |
| 9 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 population | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 has | cc |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 area | nmod:poss |
| 12 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 area | amod |
| 13 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 population | det |
| 16 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 million | case |
| 18 | 16.7 | 16.7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 million | compound |
| 19 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 population | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 making | punct |
| 21 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 has | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 making | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 21st | det |
| 24 | 21st | 21st | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 21 making | obj |
| 25 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 26 populous | advmod |
| 26 | populous | populous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 area | amod |
| 27 | metropolitan | metropolitan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 area | compound |
| 28 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 making | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 area | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the city proper | a population of 3.1 million | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | proper's urban area | a population of 16.7 million | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | proper's urban area not said here | population | populous metropolitan area in the world obl; the 21st obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary 21st=Product |
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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