Bolivia, sentence 19
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.
Spanish conquistadores, arriving from Cusco, Peru and Asunción, Paraguay, forcibly took control of the region in the 16th century.
Who acts: Spanish conquistadores · What happens: arrive, take · To what, where: Cusco, control
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 (Spanish conquistadores), 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 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 conquistadores | amod |
| 2 | conquistadores | conquistadore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 arriving | punct |
| 4 | arriving | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 conquistadores | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Cusco | case |
| 6 | Cusco | Cusco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arriving | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Peru | punct |
| 8 | Peru | Peru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Cusco | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Asunción | cc |
| 10 | Asunción | Asunción | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Cusco | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Paraguay | punct |
| 12 | Paraguay | Paraguay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Cusco | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 conquistadores | punct |
| 14 | forcibly | forcibly | ADV | _ | 15 took | advmod |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 region | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 region | det |
| 19 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 control | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 century | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 century | det |
| 22 | 16th | 16th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 23 century | amod |
| 23 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 region | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | gerund | Spanish conquistadores not said here | Cusco and Asunción and Paraguay | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cusco=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Spanish conquistadores | control of the region in the 16th century | forcibly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme |
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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