--- title: Since the adoption of the city's Constitution in 1996, Buenos Aires… — Buenos Aires · tree and pragmatics description: Since the adoption of the city's Constitution in 1996, Buenos Aires has had a democratically elected executive; Article 61 of the Constitution of the states that "Suffrage is free, equal, secret, universal, compulsory and non-accumulative. Who acts: Buenos, states. 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Since the adoption of the city's Constitution in 1996, Buenos Aires has had a democratically elected executive; Article 61 of the Constitution of the states that "Suffrage is free, equal, secret, universal, compulsory and non-accumulative. **Who acts:** Buenos, states · **What happens:** have, elect, be, adopt · **To what, where:** Constitution 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 (Buenos, states), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:158 # text = Since the adoption of the city's Constitution in 1996, Buenos Aires has had a democratically elected executive; Article 61 of the Constitution of the states that "Suffrage is free, equal, secret, universal, compulsory and non-accumulative. 1 Since since ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 adoption adoption NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 Constitution Constitution PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 1996 1996 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 Buenos Buenos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 Aires Aires PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 14 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 democratically democratically ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 xcomp _ _ 19 executive executive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 Article Article PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:unmarked _ _ 22 61 61 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 parataxis _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Constitution Constitution PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 states state NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Suffrage suffrage NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 universal universal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 compulsory compulsory ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 non-accumulative non-accumulative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present · perfect | Buenos | | | | since the adoption of the city's Constitution in 1996 | 61 Article of the Constitution of the states *parataxis* | tree rules | | 2 | **elect** | participle | Buenos *not said here* | | | | | democratically, executive *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the states | | | | | Suffrage *nsubj*; free *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | | the states *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** *in a quote* | | the states *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | | the states *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **be** *in a quote* | | the states *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **be** *in a quote* | | the states *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **adopt** | | | the city's Constitution | | | | | nom adoption «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Buenos_Aires/157/) - next →: [sentence 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Buenos_Aires/159/) - ↑ back to [Buenos Aires](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Buenos_Aires/)