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title: It became the third royal capital of the surrounding Captaincy Gener… — Guatemala City · tree and pragmatics
description: It became the third royal capital of the surrounding Captaincy General of Guatemala; which itself was part of the larger Viceroyalty of New Spain in imperial Spanish America and remained under colonial rule until the nineteenth century. Who acts: CE, third royal capital, Captaincy General. A sentenc
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# Guatemala City, sentence 7

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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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It became the third royal capital of the surrounding Captaincy General of Guatemala; which itself was part of the larger Viceroyalty of New Spain in imperial Spanish America and remained under colonial rule until the nineteenth century.

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**Who acts:** CE, third royal capital, Captaincy General · **What happens:** become, surround, be, remain · **To what, where:** third royal capital, Captaincy General, part, colonial rule

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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 (CE, third royal capital, Captaincy General), 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:7
# text = It became the third royal capital of the surrounding Captaincy General of Guatemala; which itself was part of the larger Viceroyalty of New Spain in imperial Spanish America and remained under colonial rule until the nineteenth century.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
5	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
10	Captaincy	Captaincy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Guatemala	Guatemala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	Viceroyalty	viceroyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
32	under	under	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	until	until	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	nineteenth	nineteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | CE | the third royal capital |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **surround** | gerund | the third royal capital *not said here* | Captaincy General of Guatemala |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme general=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Captaincy General of Guatemala | part |  |  |  | of the larger Viceroyalty of New Spain in imperial Spanish America; CE *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 4 | **remain** | past | the third royal capital *not said here* |  |  | colonial rule | century |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under rule=Location |

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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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