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description: Probably the oldest building in the city is another church, dating from the ninth century, the Church of Santa Coloma d'Andorra. Who acts: oldest building, church. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Andorra la Vella» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Andorra la Vella, sentence 34

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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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Probably the oldest building in the city is another church, dating from the ninth century, the Church of Santa Coloma d'Andorra.

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**Who acts:** oldest building, church · **What happens:** be, date · **To what, where:** church

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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 (oldest building, church), 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:34
# text = Probably the oldest building in the city is another church, dating from the ninth century, the Church of Santa Coloma d'Andorra.
1	Probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	dating	date	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Santa	Santa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	Coloma	Coloma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	d'Andorra	d'andorra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the oldest building in the city | another church |  |  |  | the Church of Santa *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **date** | gerund | another church *not said here* |  |  |  | century |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=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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