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title: The city center is located 15 km inland at the shore of the Rímac Ri… — Lima · tree and pragmatics
description: The city center is located 15 km inland at the shore of the Rímac River, a vital resource for the city, since it carries what will become drinking water for its inhabitants and fuels the hydroelectric dams that provide electricity to the area. Who acts: center, hydroelectric dams. A sentence of Wiki
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# Lima, sentence 159

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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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The city center is located 15 km inland at the shore of the Rímac River, a vital resource for the city, since it carries what will become drinking water for its inhabitants and fuels the hydroelectric dams that provide electricity to the area.

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**Who acts:** center, hydroelectric dams · **What happens:** locate, carry, become, drink, fuel, provide · **To what, where:** city center, shore, water, hydroelectric dams, electricity, area

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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 (center, hydroelectric dams), 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:159
# text = The city center is located 15 km inland at the shore of the Rímac River, a vital resource for the city, since it carries what will become drinking water for its inhabitants and fuels the hydroelectric dams that provide electricity to the area.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Rímac	Rímac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	vital	vital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	resource	resource	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
30	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	fuels	fuel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	hydroelectric	hydroelectric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	dams	dam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	provide	provide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | present · passive |  | the city center |  | the shore of the Rímac River |  | inland *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | present | center |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | future |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **drink** | gerund |  | water |  |  |  | for center's inhabitants | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 5 | **fuel** | present | center *not said here* | the hydroelectric dams |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent dam=Destination |
| 6 | **provide** | present | the hydroelectric dams | electricity | the area |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme to area=Recipient |

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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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