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title: Departments are subdivided into municipalities, each of which is ass… — Colombia · tree and pragmatics
description: Departments are subdivided into municipalities, each of which is assigned a municipal seat, and municipalities are in turn subdivided into corregimientos in rural areas and into comunas in urban areas. Who acts: municipalities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Colombia» with its dependency tree and pragma
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# Colombia, sentence 231

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From Wikipedia, [«Colombia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia), 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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Departments are subdivided into municipalities, each of which is assigned a municipal seat, and municipalities are in turn subdivided into corregimientos in rural areas and into comunas in urban areas.

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**Who acts:** municipalities · **What happens:** subdivide, assign, be · **To what, where:** Departments, municipalities, municipal seat, turn, corregimientos

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Colombia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (municipalities), 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:Colombia:231
# text = Departments are subdivided into municipalities, each of which is assigned a municipal seat, and municipalities are in turn subdivided into corregimientos in rural areas and into comunas in urban areas.
1	Departments	department	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	subdivided	subdivide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	municipalities	municipality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	assigned	assign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	municipalities	municipality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
21	subdivided	subdivide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	corregimientos	corregimiento	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	comunas	comuna	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **subdivide** | present · passive |  | Departments |  | municipalities |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **assign** | present · passive |  | a municipal seat |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: seat=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | municipalities |  |  | turn |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **subdivide** | participle |  | turn *not said here* |  | corregimientos |  | in rural areas and comunas in urban areas | tree rules |

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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, «Colombia», 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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