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title: For five days, Mitch pounded the country creating devastating landsl… — Tegucigalpa · tree and pragmatics
description: For five days, Mitch pounded the country creating devastating landslides and floods, causing the death of thousands as well as heavy deforestation and the destruction of thousands of homes. Who acts: Mitch, thousands. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tegucigalpa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tegucigalpa, sentence 47

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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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For five days, Mitch pounded the country creating devastating landslides and floods, causing the death of thousands as well as heavy deforestation and the destruction of thousands of homes.

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**Who acts:** Mitch, thousands · **What happens:** pound, create, cause, die, destroy · **To what, where:** country, devastating landslides, death, thousands

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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 (Mitch, thousands), 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:47
# text = For five days, Mitch pounded the country creating devastating landslides and floods, causing the death of thousands as well as heavy deforestation and the destruction of thousands of homes.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Mitch	Mitch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pounded	pound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	creating	create	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	devastating	devastating	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	landslides	landslide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	15	advmod	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	fixed	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	deforestation	deforestation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pound** | past | Mitch | the country |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Product |
| 2 | **create** | gerund | Mitch *not said here* | devastating landslides and floods |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landslide=Result |
| 3 | **cause** | gerund | Mitch *not said here* | the death of thousands |  |  |  | as heavy deforestation and the destruction of thousands of homes | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient |
| 4 | **die** |  | thousands |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **destroy** |  |  | thousands of homes |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act 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, «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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