Buenos Aires, sentence 50
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.
This scheme frustrated the traders of Buenos Aires, and a thriving informal, yet tolerated by the authorities, contraband industry developed inside the viceroyalties and with the Portuguese.
Who acts: scheme · What happens: frustrate, thrive, tolerate, develop · To what, where: traders, contraband industry, viceroyalties
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 (scheme), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 scheme | det |
| 2 | scheme | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 frustrated | nsubj |
| 3 | frustrated | frustrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 traders | det |
| 5 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 frustrated | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Buenos | case |
| 7 | Buenos | Buenos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 traders | nmod |
| 8 | Aires | Aires | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Buenos | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 a | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 a | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 frustrated | conj |
| 12 | thriving | thrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 a | acl |
| 13 | informal | informal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thriving | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tolerated | punct |
| 15 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 16 tolerated | cc |
| 16 | tolerated | tolerate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 thriving | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 authorities | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 authorities | det |
| 19 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 tolerated | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 industry | punct |
| 21 | contraband | contraband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 industry | compound |
| 22 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 authorities | appos |
| 23 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 industry | acl |
| 24 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 26 viceroyalties | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 viceroyalties | det |
| 26 | viceroyalties | viceroyalty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 developed | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Portuguese | cc |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 Portuguese | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Portuguese | det |
| 30 | Portuguese | Portuguese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 viceroyalties | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 frustrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frustrate | past | this scheme | the traders of Buenos | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus trader=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | thrive | gerund | informal property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tolerate | participle | by the authorities | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | develop | participle | contraband industry not said here | the viceroyalties and the Portuguese | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside viceroyalty=Location |
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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