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title: The city's resident labor force of 1.2 million in 2001 was mostly em… — Buenos Aires · tree and pragmatics
description: The city's resident labor force of 1.2 million in 2001 was mostly employed in the services sector, particularly social services (25%), commerce and tourism (20%) and business and financial services (17%); despite the city's role as Argentina's capital, public administration employed only 6%. A sente
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# Buenos Aires, sentence 191

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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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The city's resident labor force of 1.2 million in 2001 was mostly employed in the services sector, particularly social services (25%), commerce and tourism (20%) and business and financial services (17%); despite the city's role as Argentina's capital, public administration employed only 6%.

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**What happens:** employ · **To what, where:** resident labor force, services sector, public administration

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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: 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:191
# text = The city's resident labor force of 1.2 million in 2001 was mostly employed in the services sector, particularly social services (25%), commerce and tourism (20%) and business and financial services (17%); despite the city's role as Argentina's capital, public administration employed only 6%.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	resident	resident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	1.2	1.2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	compound	_	_
18	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	commerce	commerce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	tourism	tourism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	financial	financial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
45	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	's	's	PART	POS	_	47	case	_	_
49	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	Argentina	Argentina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	's	's	PART	POS	_	51	case	_	_
53	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
57	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	acl	_	_
58	only	only	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
59	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	60	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | past · passive |  | the city's resident labor force of 1.2 million in 2001 |  | the services sector |  | despite the city's role as Argentina's capital and public administration; mostly *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **employ** | participle |  | public administration *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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