Panama City, sentence 21
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.
One year before the start of the California Gold Rush, the Panama Railroad Company was formed, but the railroad did not begin full operation until 1855.
Who acts: railroad · What happens: form, not begin, start · To what, where: Panama Railroad Company, full operation, One year, California Gold Rush
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 (railroad), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 year | nummod |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 start | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 start | det |
| 5 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 year | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Rush | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rush | det |
| 8 | California | California | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rush | compound |
| 9 | Gold | Gold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rush | compound |
| 10 | Rush | Rush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 start | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 formed | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Company | det |
| 13 | Panama | Panama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Company | compound |
| 14 | Railroad | Railroad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Company | compound |
| 15 | Company | Company | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 formed | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 formed | aux:pass |
| 17 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Rush | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 begin | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 begin | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 railroad | det |
| 21 | railroad | railroad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 begin | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 begin | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 begin | advmod |
| 24 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 formed | advcl |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 operation | amod |
| 26 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 begin | obj |
| 27 | until | until | ADP | _ | 28 1855 | case |
| 28 | 1855 | 1855 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 begin | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 year | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past · passive | the Panama Railroad Company | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not begin | past · do-support | the railroad | full operation | until 1855 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | start | the California Gold Rush | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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