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title: A half-century later, after the ratification of the Act of Independe… — Guatemala City · tree and pragmatics
description: A half-century later, after the ratification of the Act of Independence of Central America, the city became the capital of the newly organized independent United Provinces of Central America in September 1821. Who acts: ratification. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala City» with its dependency tre
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# Guatemala City, sentence 36

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From Wikipedia, [«Guatemala City»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_City), 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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A half-century later, after the ratification of the Act of Independence of Central America, the city became the capital of the newly organized independent United Provinces of Central America in September 1821.

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**Who acts:** ratification · **What happens:** become, ratify · **To what, where:** capital, Act

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Guatemala City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ratification), 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_City:36
# text = A half-century later, after the ratification of the Act of Independence of Central America, the city became the capital of the newly organized independent United Provinces of Central America in September 1821.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ratification	ratification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Independence	Independence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
17	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
21	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
26	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	organized	organized	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	30	compound	_	_
30	Provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
33	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
36	1821	1821	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the ratification of the Act of Independence of Central America and the city | the capital of the organized independent United Provinces of Central America |  |  | september | late *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **ratify** |  |  | the Act of Independence of Central America |  |  |  |  | nom ratification «communication 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 City», 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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