Lima, sentence 159
From Wikipedia, «Lima», 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 city center is located 15 km inland at the shore of the Rímac River, a vital resource for the city, since it carries what will become drinking water for its inhabitants and fuels the hydroelectric dams that provide electricity to the area.
Who acts: center, hydroelectric dams · What happens: locate, carry, become, drink, fuel, provide · To what, where: city center, shore, water, hydroelectric dams, electricity, area
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lima». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (center, hydroelectric dams), 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 center | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 center | compound |
| 3 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 located | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 located | aux:pass |
| 5 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 km | nummod |
| 7 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 inland | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 5 located | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 shore | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shore | det |
| 11 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 located | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 River | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 River | det |
| 14 | Rímac | Rímac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 River | compound |
| 15 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 shore | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 resource | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 resource | det |
| 18 | vital | vital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 resource | amod |
| 19 | resource | resource | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 River | appos |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 city | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 city | det |
| 22 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 resource | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 carries | punct |
| 24 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 26 carries | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 carries | nsubj |
| 26 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 located | parataxis |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 become | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 become | aux |
| 29 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 carries | ccomp |
| 30 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 become | xcomp |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 drinking | obj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 inhabitants | case |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 inhabitants | nmod:poss |
| 34 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 drinking | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 fuels | cc |
| 36 | fuels | fuel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 carries | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 dams | det |
| 38 | hydroelectric | hydroelectric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 dams | amod |
| 39 | dams | dam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 fuels | obj |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 provide | nsubj |
| 41 | provide | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 dams | acl:relcl |
| 42 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 provide | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 area | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 area | det |
| 45 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 provide | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 located | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | present · passive | the city center | the shore of the Rímac River | inland property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carry | present | center | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | become | future | what nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | drink | gerund | water | for center's inhabitants | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fuel | present | center not said here | the hydroelectric dams | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent dam=Destination | ||||
| 6 | provide | present | the hydroelectric dams | electricity | the area | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme to area=Recipient |
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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