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title: Much of the controversy surrounding the project involved the possibi… — Panama City · tree and pragmatics
description: Much of the controversy surrounding the project involved the possibility that Casco Viejo would lose its World Heritage status. Who acts: controversy, Much, Casco. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Panama City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Panama City, sentence 114

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From Wikipedia, [«Panama City»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_City), 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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Much of the controversy surrounding the project involved the possibility that Casco Viejo would lose its World Heritage status.

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**Who acts:** controversy, Much, Casco · **What happens:** surround, involve, lose · **To what, where:** project, possibility, World Heritage status

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Panama City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (controversy, Much, Casco), 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_City:114
# text = Much of the controversy surrounding the project involved the possibility that Casco Viejo would lose its World Heritage status.
1	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	controversy	controversy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	involved	involve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	possibility	possibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	Casco	Casco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	Viejo	Viejo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	Heritage	heritage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | gerund | the controversy *not said here* | the project |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme project=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **involve** | past | Much of the controversy | the possibility |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possibility=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | would | Casco | project's World Heritage status |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent status=Eventuality |

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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 City», 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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