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title: Greater Santiago lacks a metropolitan government for its administrat… — Santiago · tree and pragmatics
description: Greater Santiago lacks a metropolitan government for its administration, which is distributed between authorities, complicating the operation of the city as a single entity. Who acts: Greater Santiago, authorities, government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Santiago» with its dependency tree and pragmat
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# Santiago, sentence 356

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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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Greater Santiago lacks a metropolitan government for its administration, which is distributed between authorities, complicating the operation of the city as a single entity.

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**Who acts:** Greater Santiago, authorities, government · **What happens:** lack, distribute, complicate, administer, operate · **To what, where:** metropolitan government, administration, operation, city

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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 (Greater Santiago, authorities, government), 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:356
# text = Greater Santiago lacks a metropolitan government for its administration, which is distributed between authorities, complicating the operation of the city as a single entity.
1	Greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	Santiago	Santiago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lacks	lack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	distributed	distribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	complicating	complicate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	entity	entity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lack** | present | Greater Santiago | a metropolitan government |  |  |  | for government's administration | tree rules |
| 2 | **distribute** | present · passive | authorities | government's administration |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **complicate** | gerund | Greater Santiago *not said here* | the operation of the city |  |  |  | as a single entity | tree rules |
| 4 | **administer** |  | government |  |  |  |  |  | nom administration «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **operate** |  |  | the city |  |  |  |  | nom operation «state 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, «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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