Panama City, sentence 31
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.
William Gorgas, the chief sanitary officer for the canal construction, had a particularly large impact.
Who acts: William · What happens: have · To what, where: large impact
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 (William), 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 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 2 | Gorgas | Gorgas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 William | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 officer | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 officer | det |
| 5 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 officer | amod |
| 6 | sanitary | sanitary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 officer | compound |
| 7 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 William | appos |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 construction | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 construction | det |
| 10 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 construction | compound |
| 11 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 officer | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 William | punct |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 impact | det |
| 15 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 16 large | advmod |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 impact | amod |
| 17 | impact | impact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | William | a large impact | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impact=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Panama City», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Panama_City/31/