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title: More than half the population lives in the Panama City–Colón metropo… — Panama · tree and pragmatics
description: More than half the population lives in the Panama City–Colón metropolitan corridor, which spans several cities. Who acts: population, Colón metropolitan corridor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Panama» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Panama, sentence 379

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From Wikipedia, [«Panama»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama), 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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More than half the population lives in the Panama City–Colón metropolitan corridor, which spans several cities.

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**Who acts:** population, Colón metropolitan corridor · **What happens:** live, span · **To what, where:** Panama City, several cities

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Panama». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (population, Colón metropolitan corridor), 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:Panama:379
# text = More than half the population lives in the Panama City–Colón metropolitan corridor, which spans several cities.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	3	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Panama	Panama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Colón	Colón	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	corridor	corridor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	spans	span	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | half population |  |  | the Panama City |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location |
| 2 | **span** | present | Colón metropolitan corridor | several cities |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Co-Theme |

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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, «Panama», 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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