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title: The city proper has a population of 3.1 million and its urban area h… — Buenos Aires · tree and pragmatics
description: The city proper has a population of 3.1 million and its urban area has a population of 16.7 million, making it the 21st most populous metropolitan area in the world. Who acts: city proper, urban area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Buenos Aires» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Buenos Aires, sentence 4

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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 proper has a population of 3.1 million and its urban area has a population of 16.7 million, making it the 21st most populous metropolitan area in the world.

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**Who acts:** city proper, urban area · **What happens:** have, make · **To what, where:** population

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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 (city proper, urban area), 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:4
# text = The city proper has a population of 3.1 million and its urban area has a population of 16.7 million, making it the 21st most populous metropolitan area in the world.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	proper	proper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	3.1	3.1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	16.7	16.7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	_
19	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	21st	21st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	21	obj	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	populous	populous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the city proper | a population of 3.1 million |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | proper's urban area | a population of 16.7 million |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | proper's urban area *not said here* | population |  |  |  | populous metropolitan area in the world *obl*; the 21st *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary 21st=Product |

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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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