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title: Their frequency makes them equal to the underground systems of other… — Buenos Aires · tree and pragmatics
description: Their frequency makes them equal to the underground systems of other cities, but buses cover a far wider area than the underground system. Who acts: frequency, buses. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Buenos Aires» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Buenos Aires, sentence 367

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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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Their frequency makes them equal to the underground systems of other cities, but buses cover a far wider area than the underground system.

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**Who acts:** frequency, buses · **What happens:** make, cover · **To what, where:** use, wider area

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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 (frequency, buses), 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:367
# text = Their frequency makes them equal to the underground systems of other cities, but buses cover a far wider area than the underground system.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	frequency	frequency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	systems	system	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	cover	cover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | use's frequency | use |  |  |  | equal *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 2 | **cover** | present | buses | a wider area |  |  |  | than the underground system | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme area=Destination |

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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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