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title: At the end of the 1980s, the rural exodus began, contributing to the… — Asunción · tree and pragmatics
description: At the end of the 1980s, the rural exodus began, contributing to the demographic increase —especially urban— of Central Department (part of current Greater Asunción). Who acts: rural exodus. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Asunción» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Asunción, sentence 69

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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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At the end of the 1980s, the rural exodus began, contributing to the demographic increase —especially urban— of Central Department (part of current Greater Asunción).

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**Who acts:** rural exodus · **What happens:** begin, contribute · **To what, where:** end, Central Department, demographic increase

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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 (rural exodus), 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:69
# text = At the end of the 1980s, the rural exodus began, contributing to the demographic increase —especially urban— of Central Department (part of current Greater Asunción).
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	1980s	1980s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	exodus	exodus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	contributing	contribute	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	demographic	demographic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Central	Central	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	Greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	Asunción	Asunción	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the rural exodus |  |  |  | at the end of the 1980s |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **contribute** | gerund | the rural exodus *not said here* | Central Department  Greater Asunción | the demographic increase |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent department=Theme to increase=Recipient |

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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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