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title: The city is governed by the municipality in similar instances to the… — Asunción · tree and pragmatics
description: The city is governed by the municipality in similar instances to the national level: the Mayor would be equivalent to an executive body, and the Municipal Board a legislative and regulatory body. Who acts: municipality, Mayor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Asunción» with its dependency tree and pragmat
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# Asunción, sentence 144

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From Wikipedia, [«Asunción»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asunción), 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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The city is governed by the municipality in similar instances to the national level: the Mayor would be equivalent to an executive body, and the Municipal Board a legislative and regulatory body.

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**Who acts:** municipality, Mayor · **What happens:** govern, be · **To what, where:** city, similar instances

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Asunción». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (municipality, Mayor), 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:Asunción:144
# text = The city is governed by the municipality in similar instances to the national level: the Mayor would be equivalent to an executive body, and the Municipal Board a legislative and regulatory body.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	governed	govern	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	municipality	municipality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	instances	instance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	equivalent	equivalent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	executive	executive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Municipal	Municipal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Board	Board	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	legislative	legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	regulatory	regulatory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **govern** | present · passive | the municipality | the city |  | similar instances to the national level |  | the Municipal Board *obl*; a legislative body *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | would | the Mayor |  |  |  |  | to a executive body; equivalent *property* | tree rules |

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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, «Asunción», 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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