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title: Because of its geomorphology along with an inadequate drainage netwo… — Buenos Aires · tree and pragmatics
description: Because of its geomorphology along with an inadequate drainage network, the city is highly vulnerable to flooding during periods of heavy rainfall. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Buenos Aires» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Buenos Aires, sentence 157

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From Wikipedia, [«Buenos Aires»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires), 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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Because of its geomorphology along with an inadequate drainage network, the city is highly vulnerable to flooding during periods of heavy rainfall.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** be, flood

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Buenos Aires». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city), 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:Buenos_Aires:157
# text = Because of its geomorphology along with an inadequate drainage network, the city is highly vulnerable to flooding during periods of heavy rainfall.
1	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	geomorphology	geomorphology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
5	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	inadequate	inadequate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	drainage	drainage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	vulnerable	vulnerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	flooding	flood	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	during	during	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	periods	period	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the city |  |  |  |  | because precipitation's geomorphology along a inadequate drainage network; highly, vulnerable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **flood** | gerund | the city *not said here* |  |  |  | during periods of heavy rainfall |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «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, «Buenos Aires», 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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