Argentina, sentence 96
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Between 1878 and 1884, the so-called Conquest of the Desert occurred, with the purpose of tripling the Argentine territory by means of the constant confrontations between natives and Criollos in the border, and the appropriation of the indigenous territories.
Who acts: Conquest, purpose · What happens: call, occur, triple, mean · To what, where: Conquest, appropriation, 1878, Argentine territory · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Conquest, purpose), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 2 1878 | case |
| 2 | 1878 | 1878 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 occurred | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 1884 | cc |
| 4 | 1884 | 1884 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1878 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1878 | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Conquest | det |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 called | advmod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 so | punct |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Conquest | acl |
| 10 | Conquest | Conquest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 occurred | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Desert | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Desert | det |
| 13 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Conquest | nmod |
| 14 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 purpose | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 purpose | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 purpose | det |
| 18 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 occurred | obl |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 tripling | mark |
| 20 | tripling | triple | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 purpose | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 territory | det |
| 22 | Argentine | Argentine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 territory | compound |
| 23 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tripling | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 means | case |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 occurred | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 confrontations | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 confrontations | det |
| 28 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 confrontations | amod |
| 29 | confrontations | confrontation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 means | obl |
| 30 | between | between | ADP | _ | 31 natives | case |
| 31 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 confrontations | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Criollos | cc |
| 33 | Criollos | criollo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 natives | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 border | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 border | det |
| 36 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 natives | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 appropriation | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 appropriation | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 appropriation | det |
| 40 | appropriation | appropriation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 occurred | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 territories | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 territories | det |
| 43 | indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 territories | amod |
| 44 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 appropriation | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the Conquest of the Desert not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | occur | past | the Conquest of the Desert | the appropriation of the indigenous territories | 1878 | with the purpose | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between 1878=Location | ||
| 3 | triple | gerund | the purpose not said here | the Argentine territory | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent territory=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | of the constant confrontations between natives in the border and Criollos | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Argentina», 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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