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title: These initiatives tried to update the undeveloped city to the new te… — Bogotá · tree and pragmatics
description: These initiatives tried to update the undeveloped city to the new technologies of the 1800s; however, the pace remained slow, and only after 1882, when the train and the trolley came to Bogotá, some urban development projects progressed more quickly. Who acts: initiatives, pace, train, urban develop
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# Bogotá, sentence 233

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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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These initiatives tried to update the undeveloped city to the new technologies of the 1800s; however, the pace remained slow, and only after 1882, when the train and the trolley came to Bogotá, some urban development projects progressed more quickly.

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**Who acts:** initiatives, pace, train, urban development projects · **What happens:** try, update, remain, come, progress · **To what, where:** undeveloped city, Bogotá

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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 (initiatives, pace, train, urban development projects), 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:233
# text = These initiatives tried to update the undeveloped city to the new technologies of the 1800s; however, the pace remained slow, and only after 1882, when the train and the trolley came to Bogotá, some urban development projects progressed more quickly.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	initiatives	initiative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	update	update	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	undeveloped	undeveloped	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	technologies	technology	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	1800s	1800	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	however	however	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	1882	1882	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	trolley	trolley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Bogotá	Bogotá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	det	_	_
40	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	projects	project	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	progressed	progress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
44	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	45	advmod	_	_
45	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | this initiatives |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **update** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | this initiatives *not said here* | the undeveloped city |  |  |  | to the new technologies of the 1800s | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent city=Recipient |
| 3 | **remain** | past | the pace |  |  |  |  | however, slow *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | the train and the trolley |  |  | Bogotá | after 1882 |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bogotá=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **progress** | past | some urban development projects |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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