Chile, sentence 502
From Wikipedia, «Chile», 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.
Europeans preferred to stay in countries closer to their homelands instead of taking the long journey through the Straits of Magellan or crossing the Andes.
What happens: prefer, stay, take, cross · To what, where: Europeans, countries, long journey, Andes
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Chile». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Europeans | european | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Europeans | acl |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 stay | mark |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 preferred | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 countries | case |
| 6 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stay | obl |
| 7 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 countries | amod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 homelands | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 homelands | nmod:poss |
| 10 | homelands | homeland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 closer | obl |
| 11 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 taking | mark |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 instead | fixed |
| 13 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stay | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 journey | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 journey | amod |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taking | obj |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 Straits | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Straits | det |
| 19 | Straits | Strait | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 taking | advcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Magellan | case |
| 21 | Magellan | Magellan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Straits | nmod |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 crossing | cc |
| 23 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 taking | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Andes | det |
| 25 | Andes | Ande | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 crossing | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Europeans | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prefer | participle | Europeans not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | countries | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | the long journey | the Straits of Magellan advcl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cross | gerund | the Andes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ande=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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