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title: Paraguay's population is distributed unevenly through the country, w… — Paraguay · tree and pragmatics
description: Paraguay's population is distributed unevenly through the country, with the vast majority of people living in the eastern region near the capital and largest city, Asunción, which accounts for 10% of the country's population. Who acts: people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paraguay» with its dependency
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# Paraguay, sentence 311

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From Wikipedia, [«Paraguay»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay), 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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Paraguay's population is distributed unevenly through the country, with the vast majority of people living in the eastern region near the capital and largest city, Asunción, which accounts for 10% of the country's population.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** distribute, live · **To what, where:** population, country, eastern region

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Paraguay». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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:Paraguay:311
# text = Paraguay's population is distributed unevenly through the country, with the vast majority of people living in the eastern region near the capital and largest city, Asunción, which accounts for 10% of the country's population.
1	Paraguay	Paraguay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	distributed	distribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	unevenly	unevenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	near	near	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Asunción	Asunción	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	32	det	_	_
32	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **distribute** | present · passive |  | Paraguay's population |  | the country |  | the vast majority of people *parataxis*; unevenly *property* | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  | the eastern region near the capital and largest city |  | Asunción and which accounts *parataxis* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in region=Location |

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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, «Paraguay», 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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