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title: On 25 December 1884, the first tramway pulled by mules was inaugurat… — Bogotá · tree and pragmatics
description: On 25 December 1884, the first tramway pulled by mules was inaugurated and covered the route from Plaza de Bolívar to Chapinero, and in 1892, the line connecting Plaza de Bolívar and La Sabana Station started operating. Who acts: line. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bogotá» with its dependency tree and 
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# Bogotá, sentence 482

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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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On 25 December 1884, the first tramway pulled by mules was inaugurated and covered the route from Plaza de Bolívar to Chapinero, and in 1892, the line connecting Plaza de Bolívar and La Sabana Station started operating.

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**Who acts:** line · **What happens:** pull, inaugurate, cover, connect, start, operate · **To what, where:** first tramway, 25, route, Chapinero, Plaza, 1892

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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 (line), 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:482
# text = On 25 December 1884, the first tramway pulled by mules was inaugurated and covered the route from Plaza de Bolívar to Chapinero, and in 1892, the line connecting Plaza de Bolívar and La Sabana Station started operating.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
3	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1884	1884	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	tramway	tramway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	mules	mule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	inaugurated	inaugurate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Plaza	Plaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	Bolívar	Bolívar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Chapinero	Chapinero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	1892	1892	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
31	connecting	connect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	Plaza	Plaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	Bolívar	Bolívar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	Sabana	Sabana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	flat	_	_
38	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	flat	_	_
39	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
40	operating	operate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | participle |  | the first tramway *not said here* |  |  |  | by mules | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **inaugurate** | past · passive |  | the first tramway |  | 25 |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | the route | Chapinero | Plaza |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme route=Destination |
| 4 | **connect** | gerund | the line *not said here* | Plaza and La |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plaza=Patient |
| 5 | **start** | past | the line |  |  | 1892 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **operate** | gerund | the line *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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, «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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