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# Andorra la Vella, sentence 15

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From Wikipedia, [«Andorra la Vella»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra_la_Vella), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Andorra la Vella was, during this period, the capital of a largely isolated and feudal lordship within the Principality of Catalonia, which retained its existence due to this principle of co-sovereignty.

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**Who acts:** Andorra, Catalonia, Principality · **What happens:** be, retain, exist · **To what, where:** existence

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Andorra la Vella». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Andorra, Catalonia, Principality), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Andorra_la_Vella:15
# text = Andorra la Vella was, during this period, the capital of a largely isolated and feudal lordship within the Principality of Catalonia, which retained its existence due to this principle of co-sovereignty.
1	Andorra	Andorra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	la	la	X	GW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	Vella	Vella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	goeswith	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	during	during	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
14	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	isolated	isolated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	feudal	feudal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	lordship	lordship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
19	within	within	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Principality	principality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Catalonia	Catalonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	retained	retain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	principle	principle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	co-sovereignty	co-sovereignty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Andorra |  |  |  | during this period | within the Principality of Catalonia; the capital of a isolated lordship *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **retain** | past | Catalonia | Principality's existence |  |  |  | due this principle of co-sovereignty | tree rules |
| 3 | **exist** |  | Principality |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Andorra la Vella», 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.

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