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title: A tramway in Asunción opened in 1871, initially using horse-drawn tr… — Asunción · tree and pragmatics
description: A tramway in Asunción opened in 1871, initially using horse-drawn trams and steam-powered trams, with electric trams being introduced in 1913. Who acts: tramway. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Asunción» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Asunción, sentence 63

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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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A tramway in Asunción opened in 1871, initially using horse-drawn trams and steam-powered trams, with electric trams being introduced in 1913.

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**Who acts:** tramway · **What happens:** open, use, draw, power, introduce · **To what, where:** 1871, drawn trams, electric trams, 1913

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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 (tramway), 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:63
# text = A tramway in Asunción opened in 1871, initially using horse-drawn trams and steam-powered trams, with electric trams being introduced in 1913.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tramway	tramway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Asunción	Asunción	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1871	1871	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	initially	initially	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	trams	tram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	powered	power	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	trams	tram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	trams	tram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	1913	1913	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | a tramway in Asunción |  |  | 1871 |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1871=Location |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | a tramway in Asunción *not said here* | drawn trams and powered trams |  |  |  | initially *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tram=Patient |
| 3 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | horse *compound* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **power** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | steam *compound* | tree rules |
| 5 | **introduce** | gerund · passive |  | electric trams |  | 1913 |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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