Argentina, sentence 59
From Wikipedia, «Argentina», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In the first clashes of the Independence War the Junta crushed a royalist counter-revolution in Córdoba, but failed to overcome those of the Banda Oriental, Upper Peru and Paraguay, which later became independent states.
Who acts: Independence War · What happens: crush, fail, not overcome, become, clash · To what, where: royalist counter-revolution, first clashes, those, independent states
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Argentina». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Independence War), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 clashes | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 clashes | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 clashes | amod |
| 4 | clashes | clash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 crushed | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 War | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 War | det |
| 7 | Independence | Independence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 War | compound |
| 8 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 clashes | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Junta | det |
| 10 | Junta | Junta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 War | appos |
| 11 | crushed | crush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 counter-revolution | det |
| 13 | royalist | royalist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 counter-revolution | compound |
| 14 | counter-revolution | counter-revolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crushed | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Córdoba | case |
| 16 | Córdoba | Córdoba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 counter-revolution | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 failed | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 failed | cc |
| 19 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 crushed | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 overcome | mark |
| 21 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 failed | xcomp |
| 22 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 overcome | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Oriental | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Oriental | det |
| 25 | Banda | Banda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Oriental | compound |
| 26 | Oriental | Oriental | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 those | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Peru | punct |
| 28 | Upper | Upper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Peru | compound |
| 29 | Peru | Peru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Oriental | flat |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Paraguay | cc |
| 31 | Paraguay | Paraguay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Oriental | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 became | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 became | nsubj |
| 34 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 became | advmod |
| 35 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 those | conj |
| 36 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 states | amod |
| 37 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 became | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 crushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crush | past | a royalist counter-revolution | the first clashes of the Independence War | in Córdoba | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counter-revolution=Patient | |||
| 2 | fail | past | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | not overcome | to-infinitive | those of the Banda Oriental and Paraguay | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | |||||
| 4 | become | past | independent states | which nsubj; late property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | clash | the Independence War | nom clash «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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