La Paz, sentence 124
From Wikipedia, «La Paz», 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 tin quotations from London are watched in La Paz with close interest as an index of the country's prosperity; a third of the national revenue and more than half of the total customs in 1925 were derived from tin; in short, that humble but indispensable metal is the hub around which Bolivia's economic life revolves.
Who acts: La, indispensable metal, economic life · What happens: watch, derive, be, revolve · To what, where: tin quotations, third, tin, hub
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «La Paz». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (La, indispensable metal, economic life), 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 quotations | det |
| 2 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quotations | compound |
| 3 | quotations | quotation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 watched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 London | case |
| 5 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 quotations | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 watched | aux:pass |
| 7 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 La | case |
| 9 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 watched | obl:agent |
| 10 | Paz | Paz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 La | flat |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 interest | case |
| 12 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 interest | amod |
| 13 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watched | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 index | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 index | det |
| 16 | index | index | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 interest | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 prosperity | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 prosperity | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 country | case |
| 21 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 index | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 third | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 third | det |
| 24 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 revenue | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 revenue | det |
| 27 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 revenue | amod |
| 28 | revenue | revenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 third | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 half | cc |
| 30 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 32 half | advmod |
| 31 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 more | fixed |
| 32 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 28 revenue | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 customs | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 customs | det |
| 35 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 customs | amod |
| 36 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 half | nmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 1925 | case |
| 38 | 1925 | 1925 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 revenue | nmod |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 derived | aux:pass |
| 40 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 watched | conj |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 tin | case |
| 42 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 derived | obl |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 short | punct |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 short | case |
| 45 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 watched | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 humble | punct |
| 47 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 humble | nsubj |
| 48 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 short | conj |
| 49 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 54 hub | cc |
| 50 | indispensable | indispensable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 metal | amod |
| 51 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 hub | nsubj |
| 52 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 hub | cop |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 hub | det |
| 54 | hub | hub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 short | conj |
| 55 | around | around | ADP | _ | 56 which | case |
| 56 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 61 revolves | obl |
| 57 | Bolivia | Bolivia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 life | nmod:poss |
| 58 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 57 Bolivia | case |
| 59 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 life | amod |
| 60 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 revolves | nsubj |
| 61 | revolves | revolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 hub | acl:relcl |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present · passive | La | the tin quotations from London | with close interest as a index of the country's prosperity | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | derive | past · passive | a third of the national revenue in 1925 and half of the total customs | tin | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from tin=Material | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | indispensable metal | the hub | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | revolve | present | Bolivia's economic life | the hub | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around which=Trajectory |
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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