Guatemala City, sentence 6
From Wikipedia, «Guatemala City», 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 present city was founded by the Spanish after their colonial capital, now called Antigua Guatemala, was destroyed by the devastating 1773 Santa Marta earthquake and its aftershocks.
Who acts: Spanish · What happens: found, call, destroy · To what, where: present city, colonial capital · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Guatemala City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spanish), 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 city | det |
| 2 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 city | amod |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 founded | aux:pass |
| 5 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Spanish | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Spanish | det |
| 8 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 founded | obl:agent |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 capital | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 capital | nmod:poss |
| 11 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 capital | amod |
| 12 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 founded | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 called | punct |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 called | advmod |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 capital | acl |
| 16 | Antigua | Antigua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 called | xcomp |
| 17 | Guatemala | Guatemala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Antigua | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 destroyed | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 20 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 founded | conj |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 27 earthquake | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 earthquake | det |
| 23 | devastating | devastating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 earthquake | amod |
| 24 | 1773 | 1773 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 Santa | nummod |
| 25 | Santa | Santa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 earthquake | compound |
| 26 | Marta | Marta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 earthquake | compound |
| 27 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 destroyed | advcl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 aftershocks | cc |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 aftershocks | nmod:poss |
| 30 | aftershocks | aftershock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 earthquake | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past · passive | the Spanish | the present city | after capital's colonial capital | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | call | participle | capital's colonial capital not said here | now | Antigua xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | destroy | past · passive | the Spanish not said here | the devastating Santa Marta earthquake and CE's aftershocks advcl | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |
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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