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title: The places most visited by tourists are the cities of Lima and its h… — Peru · tree and pragmatics
description: The places most visited by tourists are the cities of Lima and its historic center, Cusco, which is characterized by its Inca and colonial architecture but its main attractions are the Sacred Valley of the Incas and Machu Picchu. Who acts: places, Inca, cultural. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Peru» wit
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# Peru, sentence 396

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From Wikipedia, [«Peru»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru), 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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The places most visited by tourists are the cities of Lima and its historic center, Cusco, which is characterized by its Inca and colonial architecture but its main attractions are the Sacred Valley of the Incas and Machu Picchu.

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**Who acts:** places, Inca, cultural · **What happens:** visit, be, characterize, attract · **To what, where:** places, cities, Sacred Valley

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Peru». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (places, Inca, cultural), 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:Peru:396
# text = The places most visited by tourists are the cities of Lima and its historic center, Cusco, which is characterized by its Inca and colonial architecture but its main attractions are the Sacred Valley of the Incas and Machu Picchu.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	visited	visit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tourists	tourist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Lima	Lima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Cusco	Cusco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	characterized	characterize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	Inca	Inca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	attractions	attraction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Sacred	Sacred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Incas	Inca	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	Machu	Machu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
41	Picchu	Picchu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | participle |  | the places *not said here* |  |  |  | by tourists | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the places | the cities |  |  |  | of Lima and cultural's historic center and Cusco | tree rules |
| 3 | **characterize** | present · passive | cultural's Inca and colonial architecture but cultural's main attractions | the cities |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | the Sacred Valley and Machu |  |  |  | of the Incas; Machu *conj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **attract** |  | cultural |  |  |  |  |  | nom attraction «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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, «Peru», 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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