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Also in those years a phenomenon began that changed the configuration of the city, which was the massive immigration of inhabitants from the interior of the country, producing the exponential growth of the capital's population and the consequent urban expansion. **Who acts:** phenomenon, that, city, population · **What happens:** begin, change, be, produce, configure, grow · **To what, where:** configuration, massive immigration, exponential growth, city 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 (phenomenon, that, city, population), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:120 # text = Also in those years a phenomenon began that changed the configuration of the city, which was the massive immigration of inhabitants from the interior of the country, producing the exponential growth of the capital's population and the consequent urban expansion. 1 Also also ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 phenomenon phenomenon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 configuration configuration NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 massive massive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 immigration immigration NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 interior interior NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 producing produce VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 exponential exponential ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 consequent consequent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 42 urban urban ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 expansion expansion NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | a phenomenon | | | | year | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **change** | past | that | the configuration of the city | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent configuration=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | past | the city | the massive immigration | | | | of inhabitants from the interior of the country | tree rules | | 4 | **produce** | gerund | that *not said here* | the exponential growth of the capital's population and the consequent urban expansion | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent growth=Result | | 5 | **configure** | | | the city | | | | | nom configuration «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **grow** | | the capital's population | | | | | | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lima/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lima/121/) - ↑ back to [Lima](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lima/)