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title: One year before the start of the California Gold Rush, the Panama Ra… — Panama City · tree and pragmatics
description: One year before the start of the California Gold Rush, the Panama Railroad Company was formed, but the railroad did not begin full operation until 1855. Who acts: railroad. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Panama City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Panama City, sentence 21

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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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One year before the start of the California Gold Rush, the Panama Railroad Company was formed, but the railroad did not begin full operation until 1855.

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**Who acts:** railroad · **What happens:** form, not begin, start · **To what, where:** Panama Railroad Company, full operation, One year, California Gold Rush

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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 (railroad), 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:21
# text = One year before the start of the California Gold Rush, the Panama Railroad Company was formed, but the railroad did not begin full operation until 1855.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	Gold	Gold	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Rush	Rush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Panama	Panama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	Railroad	Railroad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	railroad	railroad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	until	until	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1855	1855	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past · passive |  | the Panama Railroad Company |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **begin** | past · do-support | the railroad | full operation |  |  | until 1855 |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Eventuality |
| 4 | **start** |  |  | the California Gold Rush |  |  |  |  | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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