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title: A phonetic study conducted by the Laboratory for Sensory Investigati… — Buenos Aires · tree and pragmatics
description: A phonetic study conducted by the Laboratory for Sensory Investigations of CONICET and the University of Toronto showed that the prosody of porteño is closer to the Neapolitan language of Italy than to any other spoken language. Who acts: phonetic study, prosody. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Buenos Ai
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# Buenos Aires, sentence 227

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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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A phonetic study conducted by the Laboratory for Sensory Investigations of CONICET and the University of Toronto showed that the prosody of porteño is closer to the Neapolitan language of Italy than to any other spoken language.

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**Who acts:** phonetic study, prosody · **What happens:** conduct, show, be, speak, investigate · **To what, where:** phonetic study, CONICET · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (phonetic study, prosody), 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:227
# text = A phonetic study conducted by the Laboratory for Sensory Investigations of CONICET and the University of Toronto showed that the prosody of porteño is closer to the Neapolitan language of Italy than to any other spoken language.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	phonetic	phonetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
4	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Laboratory	Laboratory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Sensory	sensory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Investigations	investigation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	CONICET	CONICET	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	prosody	prosody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	porteño	porteño	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Neapolitan	Neapolitan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | participle |  | a phonetic study *not said here* |  |  |  | for Sensory Investigations of CONICET and the University of Toronto; the Laboratory *obl:agent* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | past | a phonetic study |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | the prosody of porteño |  |  |  |  | to the Neapolitan language of Italy; than any other spoken language; close *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **investigate** |  |  | CONICET and the University of Toronto |  |  |  |  | nom investigation «cognition 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, «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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