Guatemala City, sentence 7

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.

It became the third royal capital of the surrounding Captaincy General of Guatemala; which itself was part of the larger Viceroyalty of New Spain in imperial Spanish America and remained under colonial rule until the nineteenth century.

Who acts: CE, third royal capital, Captaincy General · What happens: become, surround, be, remain · To what, where: third royal capital, Captaincy General, part, colonial rule

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 (CE, third royal capital, Captaincy General), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 capital	det
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 capital	amod
5	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 capital	amod
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 surrounding	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 surrounding	det
9	surrounding	surround	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 capital	acl
10	Captaincy	Captaincy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 General	compound
11	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 surrounding	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Guatemala	case
13	Guatemala	Guatemala	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 General	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 part	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 part	nsubj
16	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	18 part	obl:unmarked
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 part	cop
18	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 General	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 Viceroyalty	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Viceroyalty	det
21	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 Viceroyalty	amod
22	Viceroyalty	viceroyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 part	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Spain	case
24	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Spain	amod
25	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Viceroyalty	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 America	case
27	imperial	imperial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 America	amod
28	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 America	compound
29	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Viceroyalty	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 remained	cc
31	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 surrounding	conj
32	under	under	ADP	_	34 rule	case
33	colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 rule	amod
34	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 remained	obl
35	until	until	ADP	_	38 century	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 century	det
37	nineteenth	nineteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 century	amod
38	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 remained	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	CE	the third royal capital				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	surround	gerund	the third royal capital not said here	Captaincy General of Guatemala				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme general=Co-Theme
3	is a	past	Captaincy General of Guatemala	part			of the larger Viceroyalty of New Spain in imperial Spanish America; CE obl:unmarked	tree rules
4	remain	past	the third royal capital not said here		colonial rule	century		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under rule=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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Guatemala City, sentence 7