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title: Traditionally, they are regarded as twin or sister cities in part be… — Tegucigalpa · tree and pragmatics
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# Tegucigalpa, sentence 216

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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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Traditionally, they are regarded as twin or sister cities in part because they were founded as two distinct cities.

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**What happens:** regard, found · **To what, where:** Tegucigalpa, part

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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: 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:216
# text = Traditionally, they are regarded as twin or sister cities in part because they were founded as two distinct cities.
1	Traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	twin	twin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regard** | present · passive |  | Tegucigalpa |  | part |  | as twin cities; traditionally *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme as city=Value |
| 2 | **found** | past · passive |  | Tegucigalpa |  |  |  | as two distinct cities | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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