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# Buenos Aires, sentence 3

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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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Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− global city, according to the GaWC 2024 ranking.

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**What happens:** classify, accord · **To what, where:** Buenos

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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:3
# text = Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− global city, according to the GaWC 2024 ranking.
1	Buenos	Buenos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Aires	Aires	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	classified	classify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Alpha	Alpha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	−	−	PROPN	ADD	_	10	compound	_	_
9	global	global	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	GaWC	GaWC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	ranking	ranking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **classify** | present · passive |  | Buenos |  |  |  | as − global city  a Alpha; accord the GaWC ranking | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as city=Attribute |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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