Buenos Aires, sentence 97
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 dictatorship's appointed mayor, Osvaldo Cacciatore, also drew up plans for a network of freeways intended to relieve the city's acute traffic gridlock.
Who acts: appointed mayor · What happens: appoint, draw up, intend, relieve · To what, where: plans, freeways, acute traffic gridlock
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 (appointed mayor), 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 dictatorship | det |
| 2 | dictatorship | dictatorship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mayor | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 dictatorship | case |
| 4 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 mayor | amod |
| 5 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Osvaldo | punct |
| 7 | Osvaldo | Osvaldo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mayor | appos |
| 8 | Cacciatore | Cacciatore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Osvaldo | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mayor | punct |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 drew | advmod |
| 11 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 drew | compound:prt |
| 13 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drew | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 network | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 network | det |
| 16 | network | network | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 freeways | case |
| 18 | freeways | freeway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 network | nmod |
| 19 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 freeways | acl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 relieve | mark |
| 21 | relieve | relieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 intended | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 city | det |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gridlock | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 city | case |
| 25 | acute | acute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 gridlock | amod |
| 26 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gridlock | compound |
| 27 | gridlock | gridlock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 relieve | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | draw up | past | the dictatorship's appointed mayor | plans | for a network of freeways | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent plan=Result for network=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | intend | participle | freeways not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | relieve not said to happen | to-infinitive | the city's acute traffic gridlock | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus gridlock=Experiencer |
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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