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title: In 1524, the Spanish established their first capital, Villa de Santi… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1524, the Spanish established their first capital, Villa de Santiago de Guatemala, near the ruins of Iximché, the former Kaqchikel capital. Who acts: Spanish. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guatemala, sentence 45

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From Wikipedia, [«Guatemala»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala), 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 1524, the Spanish established their first capital, Villa de Santiago de Guatemala, near the ruins of Iximché, the former Kaqchikel capital.

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**Who acts:** Spanish · **What happens:** establish, ruin · **To what, where:** first capital, 1524, Iximché

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Guatemala». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spanish), 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:Guatemala:45
# text = In 1524, the Spanish established their first capital, Villa de Santiago de Guatemala, near the ruins of Iximché, the former Kaqchikel capital.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1524	1524	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Villa	Villa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	Santiago	Santiago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	Guatemala	Guatemala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Iximché	Iximché	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Kaqchikel	Kaqchikel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past | the Spanish | epidemics's first capital |  | 1524 |  | near the ruins of Iximché | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Patient |
| 2 | **ruin** |  |  | Iximché |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state 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, «Guatemala», 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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