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title: The city of La Paz has a consistently decreasing volume of colonial… — La Paz · tree and pragmatics
description: The city of La Paz has a consistently decreasing volume of colonial buildings, mostly centered around the vicinity of the Plaza Murillo. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «La Paz» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# La Paz, sentence 112

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From Wikipedia, [«La Paz»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Paz), 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 of La Paz has a consistently decreasing volume of colonial buildings, mostly centered around the vicinity of the Plaza Murillo.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** have, decrease, center · **To what, where:** decreasing volume, vicinity

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «La Paz». 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:La_Paz:112
# text = The city of La Paz has a consistently decreasing volume of colonial buildings, mostly centered around the vicinity of the Plaza Murillo.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Paz	Paz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	consistently	consistently	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	decreasing	decrease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	centered	center	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	around	around	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	vicinity	vicinity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Plaza	Plaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Murillo	Murillo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the city of La | a decreasing volume of colonial buildings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volume=Patient |
| 2 | **decrease** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | consistently *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **center** | past | the city of La *not said here* |  |  | the vicinity of the Plaza Murillo |  | mostly *property* | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |

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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, «La Paz», 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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