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title: The tin quotations from London are watched in La Paz with close inte… — La Paz · tree and pragmatics
description: The tin quotations from London are watched in La Paz with close interest as an index of the country's prosperity; a third of the national revenue and more than half of the total customs in 1925 were derived from tin; in short, that humble but indispensable metal is the hub around which Bolivia's eco
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# La Paz, sentence 124

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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 tin quotations from London are watched in La Paz with close interest as an index of the country's prosperity; a third of the national revenue and more than half of the total customs in 1925 were derived from tin; in short, that humble but indispensable metal is the hub around which Bolivia's economic life revolves.

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**Who acts:** La, indispensable metal, economic life · **What happens:** watch, derive, be, revolve · **To what, where:** tin quotations, third, tin, hub

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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 (La, indispensable metal, economic life), 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:124
# text = The tin quotations from London are watched in La Paz with close interest as an index of the country's prosperity; a third of the national revenue and more than half of the total customs in 1925 were derived from tin; in short, that humble but indispensable metal is the hub around which Bolivia's economic life revolves.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	quotations	quotation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	_
10	Paz	Paz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	index	index	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	revenue	revenue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	32	advmod	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	28	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	1925	1925	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	48	nsubj	_	_
48	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	_
49	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
50	indispensable	indispensable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
52	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	hub	hub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
55	around	around	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	61	obl	_	_
57	Bolivia	Bolivia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	's	's	PART	POS	_	57	case	_	_
59	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
61	revolves	revolve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | present · passive | La | the tin quotations from London |  |  |  | with close interest as a index of the country's prosperity | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **derive** | past · passive |  | a third of the national revenue in 1925 and half of the total customs |  | tin |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from tin=Material |
| 3 | **is a** | present | indispensable metal | the hub |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **revolve** | present | Bolivia's economic life |  |  | the hub |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around which=Trajectory |

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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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