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title: In 1936, the total population of Venezuela had been the same as the… — Caracas · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1936, the total population of Venezuela had been the same as the estimated population of Greater Caracas in 2000: almost 4 million inhabitants. Who acts: total population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Caracas» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Caracas, sentence 121

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From Wikipedia, [«Caracas»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracas), 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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In 1936, the total population of Venezuela had been the same as the estimated population of Greater Caracas in 2000: almost 4 million inhabitants.

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**Who acts:** total population · **What happens:** be, estimate · **To what, where:** 1936

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Caracas». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (total population), 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:Caracas:121
# text = In 1936, the total population of Venezuela had been the same as the estimated population of Greater Caracas in 2000: almost 4 million inhabitants.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1936	1936	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Venezuela	Venezuela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	estimated	estimate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Greater	Greater	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Caracas	Caracas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	compound	_	_
25	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | the total population of Venezuela |  |  | 1936 |  | as the estimated population of Greater; million inhabitants *parataxis*; same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **estimate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: 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, «Caracas», 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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