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title: For more than 50 years, the National Palace housed the Congress. — Managua · tree and pragmatics
description: For more than 50 years, the National Palace housed the Congress. Who acts: National Palace. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Managua» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Managua, sentence 153

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From Wikipedia, [«Managua»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managua), 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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For more than 50 years, the National Palace housed the Congress.

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**Who acts:** National Palace · **What happens:** house · **To what, where:** Congress

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Managua». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (National Palace), 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:Managua:153
# text = For more than 50 years, the National Palace housed the Congress.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	4	advmod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	housed	house	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **house** | past | the National Palace | the Congress |  |  | year |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location congress=Value |

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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, «Managua», 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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