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title: The city also functions as Guatemala's main transportation hub, host… — Guatemala City · tree and pragmatics
description: The city also functions as Guatemala's main transportation hub, hosting an international airport, La Aurora International Airport, and serving as the origination or end points for most of Guatemala's major highways. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala City» with its dependency tree 
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# Guatemala City, sentence 46

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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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The city also functions as Guatemala's main transportation hub, hosting an international airport, La Aurora International Airport, and serving as the origination or end points for most of Guatemala's major highways.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** function, host, serve · **To what, where:** international airport

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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 (city), 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:46
# text = The city also functions as Guatemala's main transportation hub, hosting an international airport, La Aurora International Airport, and serving as the origination or end points for most of Guatemala's major highways.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	functions	function	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	Guatemala	Guatemala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	transportation	transportation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	hub	hub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	hosting	host	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
18	Aurora	Aurora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	International	International	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Airport	Airport	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	origination	origination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	Guatemala	Guatemala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	highways	highway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **function** | present | the city |  |  |  |  | as Guatemala's main transportation hub | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as hub=Attribute |
| 2 | **host** | gerund | the city *not said here* | a international airport  La International Airport |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent airport=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **serve** | gerund | the city *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the origination or end points; for most of Guatemala's major highways | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as origination=Attribute |

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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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