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title: However, due to the poor street conditions because of the potholes a… — Bogotá · tree and pragmatics
description: However, due to the poor street conditions because of the potholes and waste, in addition to the lack of cultural and social activity at night, the ornaments were reserved to indoors where Bogotanos spent most of their time. Who acts: Bogotanos. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bogotá» with its dependency
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# Bogotá, sentence 215

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From Wikipedia, [«Bogotá»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogotá), 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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However, due to the poor street conditions because of the potholes and waste, in addition to the lack of cultural and social activity at night, the ornaments were reserved to indoors where Bogotanos spent most of their time.

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**Who acts:** Bogotanos · **What happens:** reserve, spend, lack · **To what, where:** poor street conditions, most, cultural activity

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bogotá». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bogotanos), 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:Bogotá:215
# text = However, due to the poor street conditions because of the potholes and waste, in addition to the lack of cultural and social activity at night, the ornaments were reserved to indoors where Bogotanos spent most of their time.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	potholes	pothole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	reserved	reserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	32	obl	_	_
35	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
36	Bogotanos	Bogotanos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
38	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reserve** | past · passive |  | the poor street conditions because the potholes and waste and addition to the lack of cultural activity at night and the ornaments |  |  |  | however *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** | past | Bogotanos | most of ornaments's time |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Asset |
| 3 | **lack** |  |  | cultural activity at night |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: of=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, «Bogotá», 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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