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title: The main body of water in Caracas is the Guaire River, which flows a… — Caracas · tree and pragmatics
description: The main body of water in Caracas is the Guaire River, which flows across the city and empties into the Tuy River, which is also fed by the El Valle and San Pedro rivers, in addition to numerous streams which descend from El Ávila. Who acts: main body, Guaire River, El, numerous streams. A sentence 
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# Caracas, sentence 67

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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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The main body of water in Caracas is the Guaire River, which flows across the city and empties into the Tuy River, which is also fed by the El Valle and San Pedro rivers, in addition to numerous streams which descend from El Ávila.

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**Who acts:** main body, Guaire River, El, numerous streams · **What happens:** be, flow, empty, feed, descend · **To what, where:** Guaire River, city, Tuy River, addition, El

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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 (main body, Guaire River, El, numerous streams), 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:67
# text = The main body of water in Caracas is the Guaire River, which flows across the city and empties into the Tuy River, which is also fed by the El Valle and San Pedro rivers, in addition to numerous streams which descend from El Ávila.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Caracas	Caracas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Guaire	Guaire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	across	across	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	empties	empty	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Tuy	Tuy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	El	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl:agent	_	_
32	Valle	Valle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	Pedro	Pedro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	_
36	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	descend	descend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	El	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	Ávila	Ávila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the main body of water in Caracas | the Guaire River |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flow** | present | the Guaire River |  |  | the city |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **empty** | present | the Guaire River *not said here* |  |  | the Tuy River |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
| 4 | **feed** | present · passive | the El and San | the Tuy River |  | addition to numerous streams |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Value in addition=Location |
| 5 | **descend** | present | numerous streams |  |  | El |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from el=Location |

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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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