Bolivia, sentence 16
From Wikipedia, «Bolivia», 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.
Centuries prior to Spanish colonization, much of what would become Bolivia formed part of the Tiwanaku polity, which collapsed around 1000 AD.
Who acts: Centuries, Tiwanaku polity · What happens: become, form, collapse · To what, where: part, 1000
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bolivia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Centuries, Tiwanaku polity), 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 | Centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 formed | nsubj |
| 2 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 5 colonization | case |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 2 prior | fixed |
| 4 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 colonization | amod |
| 5 | colonization | colonization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Centuries | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 much | punct |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 colonization | amod |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 become | mark |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 become | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 become | aux |
| 11 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 much | advcl |
| 12 | Bolivia | Bolivia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 become | xcomp |
| 13 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 formed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 polity | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 polity | det |
| 17 | Tiwanaku | Tiwanaku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 polity | compound |
| 18 | polity | polity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 part | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 collapsed | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 collapsed | nsubj |
| 21 | collapsed | collapse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 polity | acl:relcl |
| 22 | around | around | ADP | _ | 23 1000 | case |
| 23 | 1000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 collapsed | obl |
| 24 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 1000 | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | would | what nsubj; Bolivia xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | form | past | Centuries prior Spanish colonization | part of the Tiwanaku polity | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme | ||||
| 3 | collapse | past | the Tiwanaku polity | 1000 AD | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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