Panama, sentence 379
From Wikipedia, «Panama», 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.
More than half the population lives in the Panama City–Colón metropolitan corridor, which spans several cities.
Who acts: population, Colón metropolitan corridor · What happens: live, span · To what, where: Panama City, several cities
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Panama». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (population, Colón metropolitan corridor), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 3 half | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 More | fixed |
| 3 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 5 population | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 population | det |
| 5 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | nsubj |
| 6 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 City | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 City | det |
| 9 | Panama | Panama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 City | compound |
| 10 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | obl |
| 11 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 corridor | punct |
| 12 | Colón | Colón | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 corridor | compound |
| 13 | metropolitan | metropolitan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 corridor | compound |
| 14 | corridor | corridor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 City | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spans | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 spans | nsubj |
| 17 | spans | span | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 corridor | acl:relcl |
| 18 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cities | amod |
| 19 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spans | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | half population | the Panama City | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location | ||||
| 2 | span | present | Colón metropolitan corridor | several cities | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Co-Theme |
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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