Panama City, sentence 114
From Wikipedia, «Panama 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.
Much of the controversy surrounding the project involved the possibility that Casco Viejo would lose its World Heritage status.
Who acts: controversy, Much, Casco · What happens: surround, involve, lose · To what, where: project, possibility, World Heritage status
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Panama City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (controversy, Much, Casco), 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 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 involved | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 controversy | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 controversy | det |
| 4 | controversy | controversy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Much | nmod |
| 5 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 controversy | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 project | det |
| 7 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surrounding | obj |
| 8 | involved | involve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 possibility | det |
| 10 | possibility | possibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 involved | obj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 lose | mark |
| 12 | Casco | Casco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lose | nsubj |
| 13 | Viejo | Viejo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Casco | flat |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 lose | aux |
| 15 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 possibility | acl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 status | nmod:poss |
| 17 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 status | compound |
| 18 | Heritage | heritage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 status | compound |
| 19 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lose | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 involved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | gerund | the controversy not said here | the project | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme project=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | involve | past | Much of the controversy | the possibility | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possibility=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | would | Casco | project's World Heritage status | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent status=Eventuality |
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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