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title: At the beginning of the 20th century, the construction of avenues th… — Lima · tree and pragmatics
description: At the beginning of the 20th century, the construction of avenues that would serve as a matrix for the development of the city began. Who acts: construction, development. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lima» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lima, sentence 116

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From Wikipedia, [«Lima»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima), 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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At the beginning of the 20th century, the construction of avenues that would serve as a matrix for the development of the city began.

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**Who acts:** construction, development · **What happens:** serve, begin, construct · **To what, where:** beginning, 20th century, avenues

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lima». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (construction, development), 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:Lima:116
# text = At the beginning of the 20th century, the construction of avenues that would serve as a matrix for the development of the city began.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	avenues	avenue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	matrix	matrix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
25	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | would | the construction of avenues |  |  |  | at the beginning of the 20th century | as a matrix for the development; that *nsubj* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as matrix=Attribute |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the development *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the city | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **begin** |  |  | the 20th century |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **construct** |  |  | avenues |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act 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, «Lima», 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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