Buenos Aires, sentence 405
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 turbulent modern political history has "bred an intense sense of expression in porteños", and urban art has been used to depict these stories and as a means of protest.
Who acts: a · What happens: breed, use, depict, mean, sense · To what, where: turbulent modern political history, urban art, stories, expression
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 (a), 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 | 7 history | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 city | case |
| 4 | turbulent | turbulent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 history | amod |
| 5 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 history | amod |
| 6 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 history | amod |
| 7 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bred | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bred | aux |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bred | punct |
| 10 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sense | det |
| 12 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sense | amod |
| 13 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bred | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 expression | case |
| 15 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sense | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 porteños | case |
| 17 | porteños | porteño | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 expression | nmod |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 porteños | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 used | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 used | cc |
| 21 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 art | amod |
| 22 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 used | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 used | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 used | aux:pass |
| 25 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bred | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 depict | mark |
| 27 | depict | depict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 used | advcl |
| 28 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 stories | det |
| 29 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 depict | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 means | cc |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 means | mark |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 means | nsubj |
| 33 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 depict | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 protest | case |
| 35 | protest | protest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 means | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breed in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the city's turbulent modern political history | a intense sense of expression in porteños obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | present · perfect · passive | urban art | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | depict | to-infinitive | this stories | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | a | of protest | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sense in a quote | expression in porteños | nom sense «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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