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title: To address the problem of transportation, the metro system underwent… — Santiago · tree and pragmatics
description: To address the problem of transportation, the metro system underwent significant expansion, with lines being extended and three new lines added between 1997 and 2006 in the southeastern sector. Who acts: metro system, lines. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Santiago» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Santiago, sentence 166

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From Wikipedia, [«Santiago»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago), 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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To address the problem of transportation, the metro system underwent significant expansion, with lines being extended and three new lines added between 1997 and 2006 in the southeastern sector.

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**Who acts:** metro system, lines · **What happens:** address, expansion, be, add · **To what, where:** problem, three new lines, southeastern sector

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Santiago». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (metro system, lines), 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:Santiago:166
# text = To address the problem of transportation, the metro system underwent significant expansion, with lines being extended and three new lines added between 1997 and 2006 in the southeastern sector.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	address	address	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	transportation	transportation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	metro	metro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	underwent	underwent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	expansion	expansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
18	extended	extended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1997	1997	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	southeastern	southeastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** | to-infinitive |  | the problem of transportation and underwent significant expansion |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Destination |
| 2 | **expansion** |  | the metro system |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | lines |  |  |  |  | three new lines *conj*; extended *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | three new lines *not said here* |  | the southeastern sector |  | between 1997 | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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, «Santiago», 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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