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title: The city's turbulent modern political history has "bred an intense s… — Buenos Aires · tree and pragmatics
description: The city's turbulent modern political history has "bred an intense sense of expression in porteños", and urban art has been used to depict these stories and as a means of protest. Who acts: a. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Buenos Aires» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Buenos Aires, sentence 405

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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 turbulent modern political history has "bred an intense sense of expression in porteños", and urban art has been used to depict these stories and as a means of protest.

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**Who acts:** a · **What happens:** breed, use, depict, mean, sense · **To what, where:** turbulent modern political history, urban art, stories, expression

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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 (a), 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:405
# text = The city's turbulent modern political history has "bred an intense sense of expression in porteños", and urban art has been used to depict these stories and as a means of protest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	turbulent	turbulent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	intense	intense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	porteños	porteño	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	depict	depict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
28	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	nsubj	_	_
33	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	protest	protest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breed** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the city's turbulent modern political history |  |  |  | a intense sense of expression in porteños *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present · perfect · passive |  | urban art |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **depict** | to-infinitive |  | this stories |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | a |  |  |  |  | of protest | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sense** *in a quote* |  |  | expression in porteños |  |  |  |  | nom sense «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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