--- title: Bunau-Varilla negotiated the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty of 1903, which… — Panama City · tree and pragmatics description: Bunau-Varilla negotiated the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty of 1903, which provided the United States with a 10-mile-wide strip of land for the canal, a one-time $10 million payment to Panama, and an annual annuity of $250,000. Who acts: Bunau, Varilla Treaty. 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Bunau-Varilla negotiated the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty of 1903, which provided the United States with a 10-mile-wide strip of land for the canal, a one-time $10 million payment to Panama, and an annual annuity of $250,000. **Who acts:** Bunau, Varilla Treaty · **What happens:** negotiate, provide · **To what, where:** Varilla Treaty, United States 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 (Bunau, Varilla Treaty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:25 # text = Bunau-Varilla negotiated the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty of 1903, which provided the United States with a 10-mile-wide strip of land for the canal, a one-time $10 million payment to Panama, and an annual annuity of $250,000. 1 Bunau Bunau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Varilla Varilla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 4 negotiated negotiate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 6 Hay Hay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Bunau Bunau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Varilla Varilla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Treaty Treaty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 1903 1903 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 provided provide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 United United ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 22 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 strip strip NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 canal canal NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 38 $ $ SYM $ _ 37 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 39 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 compound _ _ 40 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 41 payment payment NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Panama Panama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 annual annual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 annuity annuity NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 $ $ SYM $ _ 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 250,000 250,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 50 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **negotiate** | past | Bunau | the Varilla Treaty Hay and Bunau of 1903 | | | | a annual annuity *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **provide** | past | the Varilla Treaty Hay and Bunau of 1903 | | the United States | | | with a mile wide strip of land for the canal and a one time | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent state=Recipient with strip=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Panama_City/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Panama_City/26/) - ↑ back to [Panama City](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Panama_City/)