Chile, sentence 7
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.
Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacing Inca rule; however, they failed to conquer the autonomous tribal Mapuche people who inhabited what is now south-central Chile.
Who acts: Spain, capital, autonomous tribal Mapuche people · What happens: conquer, colonize, replace, fail, not conquer, inhabit · To what, where: region, Inca rule, autonomous tribal Mapuche people, south central Chile
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: who acts (Spain, capital, autonomous tribal Mapuche people), 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 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 conquered | nsubj |
| 2 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 colonized | cc |
| 4 | colonized | colonize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 conquered | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 region | det |
| 6 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 colonized | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 century | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 century | det |
| 9 | mid-16th | mid-16th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 10 century | amod |
| 10 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 colonized | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replacing | punct |
| 12 | replacing | replace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 colonized | advcl |
| 13 | Inca | Inca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 rule | compound |
| 14 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replacing | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 failed | punct |
| 16 | however | however | ADV | _ | 19 failed | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 however | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 failed | nsubj |
| 19 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 conquered | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 conquer | mark |
| 21 | conquer | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 failed | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 people | det |
| 23 | autonomous | autonomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 people | amod |
| 24 | tribal | tribal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 people | amod |
| 25 | Mapuche | Mapuche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 people | compound |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 conquer | obj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 inhabited | nsubj |
| 28 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 people | acl:relcl |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 inhabited | obj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 Chile | cop |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 Chile | advmod |
| 32 | south | south | ADV | _ | 35 Chile | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 south | punct |
| 34 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Chile | amod |
| 35 | Chile | Chile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 what | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | past | Spain | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | colonize | past | Spain not said here | the region | century | tree rules | |||
| 3 | replace | gerund | Spain not said here | Inca rule | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rule=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | fail | past | capital | however property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | not conquer | to-infinitive | capital not said here | the autonomous tribal Mapuche people | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 6 | inhabit | past | the autonomous tribal Mapuche people | the autonomous tribal Mapuche people | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | south central Chile | now | tree rules |
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, «Chile», 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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