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title: As a result, in late 1990 under Decree 134-90, the National Congress… — Tegucigalpa · tree and pragmatics
description: As a result, in late 1990 under Decree 134-90, the National Congress of Honduras enacted the Law of Municipalities (Ley de Municipalidades), defining the country's department and municipal institutions, representatives and their functions to give city government autonomy and decentralize it from the
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# Tegucigalpa, sentence 210

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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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As a result, in late 1990 under Decree 134-90, the National Congress of Honduras enacted the Law of Municipalities (Ley de Municipalidades), defining the country's department and municipal institutions, representatives and their functions to give city government autonomy and decentralize it from the national government.

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**Who acts:** National Congress · **What happens:** enact, define, give, decentralize · **To what, where:** Law, department, government autonomy, autonomy, national government

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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 (National Congress), 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:210
# text = As a result, in late 1990 under Decree 134-90, the National Congress of Honduras enacted the Law of Municipalities (Ley de Municipalidades), defining the country's department and municipal institutions, representatives and their functions to give city government autonomy and decentralize it from the national government.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Decree	Decree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	134-90	134-90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Honduras	Honduras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	enacted	enact	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Municipalities	Municipality	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Ley	Ley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	Municipalidades	Municipalidade	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	defining	define	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	department	department	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	institutions	institution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	representatives	representative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	functions	function	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
43	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	autonomy	autonomy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	decentralize	decentralize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	from	from	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enact** | past | the National Congress of Honduras | the Law of Municipalities and Ley Municipalidades |  |  |  | as a result in late 1990 under Decree | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme |
| 2 | **define** | gerund | the National Congress of Honduras *not said here* | the country's department and municipal institutions and representatives and representatives's functions |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent department=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | the National Congress of Honduras *not said here* | government autonomy |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent autonomy=Theme |
| 4 | **decentralize** | infinitive | the National Congress of Honduras *not said here* | autonomy |  | the national government |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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, «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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