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title: The nearest and most active is Pacaya, which at times erupts a consi… — Guatemala City · tree and pragmatics
description: The nearest and most active is Pacaya, which at times erupts a considerable amount of ash. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guatemala City, sentence 84

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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 nearest and most active is Pacaya, which at times erupts a considerable amount of ash.

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**What happens:** be, erupt, amount · **To what, where:** Pacaya, considerable amount, ash

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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: 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:84
# text = The nearest and most active is Pacaya, which at times erupts a considerable amount of ash.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	Pacaya	Pacaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
12	erupts	erupt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Pacaya |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **erupt** | present |  | a considerable amount of ash |  |  | time | which *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **amount** |  |  | ash |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession 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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