Colombia, sentence 60
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Sebastián de Belalcázar, conqueror of Quito, traveled north and founded Cali, in 1536, and Popayán, in 1537; from 1536 to 1539, German conquistador Nikolaus Federmann crossed the Llanos Orientales and went over the Cordillera Oriental in a search for El Dorado, the "city of gold".
Who acts: Sebastián, Nikolaus · What happens: travel, found, cross, go · To what, where: Cali, 1536, Llanos Orientales, Cordillera Oriental
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Colombia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sebastián, Nikolaus), 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 | Sebastián | Sebastián | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 traveled | nsubj |
| 2 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sebastián | flat |
| 3 | Belalcázar | Belalcázar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sebastián | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 conqueror | punct |
| 5 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sebastián | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Quito | case |
| 7 | Quito | Quito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 conqueror | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sebastián | punct |
| 9 | traveled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | north | north | ADV | _ | 9 traveled | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 founded | cc |
| 12 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 traveled | conj |
| 13 | Cali | Cali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 founded | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 1536 | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1536 | case |
| 16 | 1536 | 1536 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 founded | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Popayán | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Popayán | cc |
| 19 | Popayán | Popayán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 traveled | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 1537 | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1537 | case |
| 22 | 1537 | 1537 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 Popayán | list |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 crossed | punct |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 1536 | case |
| 25 | 1536 | 1536 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 crossed | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 1539 | case |
| 27 | 1539 | 1539 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 1536 | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 1536 | punct |
| 29 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 conquistador | amod |
| 30 | conquistador | conquistador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Nikolaus | nmod:desc |
| 31 | Nikolaus | Nikolaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 crossed | nsubj |
| 32 | Federmann | Federmann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Nikolaus | flat |
| 33 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 traveled | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Orientales | det |
| 35 | Llanos | Llanos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Orientales | compound |
| 36 | Orientales | Orientales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 crossed | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 went | cc |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 crossed | conj |
| 39 | over | over | ADP | _ | 42 Oriental | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Oriental | det |
| 41 | Cordillera | Cordillera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Oriental | compound |
| 42 | Oriental | Oriental | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 went | obl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 search | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 search | det |
| 45 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 went | obl |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 El | case |
| 47 | El | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 search | nmod |
| 48 | Dorado | Dorado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 El | flat |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 city | punct |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 city | det |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 city | punct |
| 52 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 El | appos |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 gold | case |
| 54 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 city | nmod |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 city | punct |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 traveled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | Sebastián | Popayán parataxis; north property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | found | past | Sebastián not said here | Cali | 1536 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cali=Patient | |||
| 3 | cross | past | Nikolaus German conquistador | the Llanos Orientales | 1536 to 1539 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orientales=Patient | |||
| 4 | go | past | Nikolaus German conquistador not said here | the Cordillera Oriental | in a search for El | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over oriental=Initial_Location |
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, «Colombia», 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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