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title: In 2009, the unemployment rate in Tegucigalpa was 8.1 percent, and a… — Tegucigalpa · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2009, the unemployment rate in Tegucigalpa was 8.1 percent, and an unemployed person may spend as much as four months seeking employment. Who acts: unemployment rate, unemployed person. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tegucigalpa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tegucigalpa, sentence 188

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From Wikipedia, [«Tegucigalpa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegucigalpa), 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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In 2009, the unemployment rate in Tegucigalpa was 8.1 percent, and an unemployed person may spend as much as four months seeking employment.

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**Who acts:** unemployment rate, unemployed person · **What happens:** be, spend, seek · **To what, where:** 8.1 percent, 2009, much, employment

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tegucigalpa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unemployment rate, unemployed person), 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:Tegucigalpa:188
# text = In 2009, the unemployment rate in Tegucigalpa was 8.1 percent, and an unemployed person may spend as much as four months seeking employment.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	unemployment	unemployment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Tegucigalpa	Tegucigalpa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	8.1	8.1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	unemployed	unemployed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
25	employment	employment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the unemployment rate in Tegucigalpa | 8.1 percent |  | 2009 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spend** | may | a unemployed person | much |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Asset |
| 3 | **seek** | gerund | a unemployed person *not said here* | employment |  |  | month |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employment=Theme |

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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, «Tegucigalpa», 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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