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title: It was Simón Bolívar who rebaptized the city with the name of Bogotá… — Bogotá · tree and pragmatics
description: It was Simón Bolívar who rebaptized the city with the name of Bogotá, as a way of honoring the Muisca people and as an emancipation act towards the Spanish crown. Who acts: Kingdom, Simón, way. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bogotá» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bogotá, sentence 8

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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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It was Simón Bolívar who rebaptized the city with the name of Bogotá, as a way of honoring the Muisca people and as an emancipation act towards the Spanish crown.

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**Who acts:** Kingdom, Simón, way · **What happens:** be, rebaptiz, honor, name · **To what, where:** Simón, city, Muisca people, 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 (Kingdom, Simón, way), 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:8
# text = It was Simón Bolívar who rebaptized the city with the name of Bogotá, as a way of honoring the Muisca people and as an emancipation act towards the Spanish crown.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Simón	Simón	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Bolívar	Bolívar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rebaptized	rebaptiz	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Bogotá	Bogotá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	honoring	honor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Muisca	Muisca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	emancipation	emancipation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Kingdom | Simón |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rebaptiz** | past | Simón | the city |  |  |  | with the name of Bogotá; who *nsubj*; a way *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 3 | **honor** | gerund | a way *not said here* | the Muisca people and a emancipation act |  |  |  | towards the Spanish crown | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | Bogotá |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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