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title: The name was later used to refer to the whole nation. — Asunción · tree and pragmatics
description: The name was later used to refer to the whole nation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Asunción» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Asunción, sentence 32

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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 name was later used to refer to the whole nation.

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**What happens:** use, refer · **To what, where:** name

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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: 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:32
# text = The name was later used to refer to the whole nation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	refer	refer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | the name |  |  |  | late *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **refer** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the whole nation | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to nation=Co-Theme |

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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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