Bolivia, sentence 94
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.
Peasants and the Bolivian army fought briefly but after a few victories, and facing the prospect of a total war against Brazil, it was forced to sign the Treaty of Petrópolis in 1903, in which Bolivia lost this rich territory.
Who acts: Peasants, prospect, Bolivia · What happens: fight, face, force, sign, lose, prospect · To what, where: prospect, Treaty, 1903, rich territory, total war
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 (Peasants, prospect, Bolivia), 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 | Peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 army | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 army | det |
| 4 | Bolivian | Bolivian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 army | compound |
| 5 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Peasants | conj |
| 6 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | briefly | briefly | ADV | _ | 6 fought | advmod |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 victories | cc |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 victories | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 victories | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 victories | amod |
| 12 | victories | victory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fought | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 forced | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 forced | cc |
| 15 | facing | face | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 forced | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prospect | det |
| 17 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 facing | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 war | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 war | det |
| 20 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 war | amod |
| 21 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prospect | nmod |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 Brazil | case |
| 23 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 war | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 facing | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 forced | aux:pass |
| 27 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fought | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 sign | mark |
| 29 | sign | sign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 forced | xcomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Treaty | det |
| 31 | Treaty | Treaty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sign | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Petrópolis | case |
| 33 | Petrópolis | Petrópolis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Treaty | nmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 1903 | case |
| 35 | 1903 | 1903 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 sign | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 lost | punct |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 which | case |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 lost | obl |
| 39 | Bolivia | Bolivia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 lost | nsubj |
| 40 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 forced | conj |
| 41 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 territory | det |
| 42 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 territory | amod |
| 43 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lost | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | Peasants and the Bolivian army | a few victories conj; briefly property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | face | gerund | the prospect of a total war against Brazil | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme prospect=Destination | |||||
| 3 | force | past · passive | prospect | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sign | to-infinitive | prospect not said here | the Treaty of Petrópolis | 1903 | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent treaty=Theme in 1903=Destination | |||
| 5 | lose | past | Bolivia | this rich territory | which obl | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | prospect | a total war against Brazil | nom prospect «state transitive»: of=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Bolivia», 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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