Buenos Aires, sentence 98
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 plan, however, called for a seemingly indiscriminate razing of residential areas and, though only three of the eight planned were put up at the time, they were mostly obtrusive raised freeways that continue to blight a number of formerly comfortable neighborhoods to this day.
Who acts: three, plans, obtrusive raised freeways · What happens: call, raze, plan, put up, raise, be · To what, where: plan, obtrusive raised freeways, number · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (three, plans, obtrusive raised freeways), 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 plan | det |
| 2 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 plan | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 called | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 plan | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 areas | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 areas | det |
| 9 | seemingly | seemingly | ADV | _ | 10 indiscriminate | advmod |
| 10 | indiscriminate | indiscriminate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 areas | amod |
| 11 | razing | raze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 areas | amod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 areas | case |
| 13 | residential | residential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 areas | amod |
| 14 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 called | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 planned | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 planned | punct |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 23 planned | mark |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 three | advmod |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 planned | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 eight | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eight | det |
| 22 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 three | nmod |
| 23 | planned | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | conj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 put | aux:pass |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 put | compound:prt |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 freeways | punct |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 freeways | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 freeways | cop |
| 33 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 36 freeways | advmod |
| 34 | obtrusive | obtrusive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 freeways | amod |
| 35 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 freeways | amod |
| 36 | freeways | freeway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 put | conj |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 continue | nsubj |
| 38 | continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 freeways | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 blight | mark |
| 40 | blight | blight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 continue | xcomp |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 number | det |
| 42 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 blight | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 neighborhoods | case |
| 44 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 45 comfortable | advmod |
| 45 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 neighborhoods | amod |
| 46 | neighborhoods | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 number | nmod |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 day | case |
| 48 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 day | det |
| 49 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 blight | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the plan not said here | for a indiscriminate razing residential areas; however property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for area=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | raze | gerund | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | plan | past | three of the eight | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | put up | past · passive | the plan | time | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 5 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is a | past | plans = plan | obtrusive raised freeways | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | continue | present | obtrusive raised freeways | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | blight | to-infinitive | obtrusive raised freeways not said here | a number of comfortable neighborhoods | day | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Buenos Aires», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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