--- title: On 8 March 2000, the year after a new constitution was introduced in… — Caracas · tree and pragmatics description: On 8 March 2000, the year after a new constitution was introduced in Venezuela, it was decreed in Gaceta Official N° 36,906 that the Metropolitan District of Caracas would be created and that some of the powers of the Libertador, Chacao, Baruta, Sucre, and El Hatillo municipalities would be delegate --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Caracas/149/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Caracas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Caracas/) / 149 # Caracas, sentence 149 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. On 8 March 2000, the year after a new constitution was introduced in Venezuela, it was decreed in Gaceta Official N° 36,906 that the Metropolitan District of Caracas would be created and that some of the powers of the Libertador, Chacao, Baruta, Sucre, and El Hatillo municipalities would be delegated to the Alcaldía Mayor, physically located in the large Libertador municipality, in the center of the city. **What happens:** introduce, decree, create, delegate, locate · **To what, where:** year, Venezuela, Forum, Gaceta Official N, Metropolitan District, some 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:149 # text = On 8 March 2000, the year after a new constitution was introduced in Venezuela, it was decreed in Gaceta Official N° 36,906 that the Metropolitan District of Caracas would be created and that some of the powers of the Libertador, Chacao, Baruta, Sucre, and El Hatillo municipalities would be delegated to the Alcaldía Mayor, physically located in the large Libertador municipality, in the center of the city. 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 4 2000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 constitution constitution NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 introduced introduce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Venezuela Venezuela PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 decreed decree VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 Gaceta Gaceta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 Official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 N N PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ° ° SYM SYM _ 25 case _ _ 25 36,906 36,906 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nmod _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 Metropolitan Metropolitan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 District District PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Caracas Caracas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 created create VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 37 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 57 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 powers power NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Libertador Libertador PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 Chacao Chacao PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 Baruta Baruta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 Sucre Sucre PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 52 El El PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 53 Hatillo Hatillo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 flat _ _ 54 municipalities municipality NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 nsubj:pass _ _ 55 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 56 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 57 aux:pass _ _ 57 delegated delegate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 conj _ _ 58 to to ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 60 Alcaldía Alcaldía PROPN NNP Number=Sing 61 compound _ _ 61 Mayor Mayor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 63 physically physically ADV RB _ 64 advmod _ _ 64 located locate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 conj _ _ 65 in in ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 67 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 amod _ _ 68 Libertador Libertador PROPN NNP Number=Sing 69 compound _ _ 69 municipality municipality NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 70 , , PUNCT , _ 73 punct _ _ 71 in in ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 72 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 73 det _ _ 73 center center NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 parataxis _ _ 74 of of ADP IN _ 76 case _ _ 75 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 76 det _ _ 76 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 77 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **introduce** | past · passive | | the year after a new constitution | | Venezuela | march | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **decree** | past · passive | | Forum | | Gaceta Official N ° 36,906 | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **create** | would · passive | | the Metropolitan District of Caracas | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 4 | **delegate** | would · passive | | some of the powers of the Libertador and Chacao and Baruta and Sucre | | | | to the Alcaldía Mayor; El municipalities *nsubj:pass* | tree rules | | 5 | **locate** | participle | | | | the large Libertador municipality | | the center of the city *parataxis*; physically *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Caracas/148/) - next →: [sentence 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Caracas/150/) - ↑ back to [Caracas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Caracas/)