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title: The present city was founded by the Spanish after their colonial cap… — Guatemala City · tree and pragmatics
description: The present city was founded by the Spanish after their colonial capital, now called Antigua Guatemala, was destroyed by the devastating 1773 Santa Marta earthquake and its aftershocks. Who acts: Spanish. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guatemala City, sentence 6

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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 present city was founded by the Spanish after their colonial capital, now called Antigua Guatemala, was destroyed by the devastating 1773 Santa Marta earthquake and its aftershocks.

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**Who acts:** Spanish · **What happens:** found, call, destroy · **To what, where:** present city, colonial capital · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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_City:6
# text = The present city was founded by the Spanish after their colonial capital, now called Antigua Guatemala, was destroyed by the devastating 1773 Santa Marta earthquake and its aftershocks.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl:agent	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	Antigua	Antigua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
17	Guatemala	Guatemala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
23	devastating	devastating	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
24	1773	1773	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	Santa	Santa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	Marta	Marta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advcl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	aftershocks	aftershock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past · passive | the Spanish | the present city |  |  | after capital's colonial capital |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | capital's colonial capital *not said here* |  |  | now | Antigua *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **destroy** | past · passive | the Spanish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the devastating Santa Marta earthquake and CE's aftershocks *advcl* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |

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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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