Montevideo, sentence 124
From Wikipedia, «Montevideo», 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.
The Bay of Montevideo forms a natural harbor, the nation's largest and one of the largest in the Southern Cone, and the finest natural port in the region, functioning as a crucial component of the Uruguayan economy and foreign trade.
Who acts: Bay · What happens: form, compose · To what, where: natural harbor, Uruguayan economy
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Montevideo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bay), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bay | det |
| 2 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 forms | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Montevideo | case |
| 4 | Montevideo | montevideo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bay | nmod |
| 5 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 harbor | det |
| 7 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 harbor | amod |
| 8 | harbor | harbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forms | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 largest | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 nation | det |
| 11 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 largest | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 nation | case |
| 13 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 harbor | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 one | cc |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 largest | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 largest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 largest | det |
| 18 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 one | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Cone | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Cone | det |
| 21 | Southern | Southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Cone | amod |
| 22 | Cone | Cone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 largest | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 port | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 port | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 port | det |
| 26 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 port | amod |
| 27 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 port | amod |
| 28 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 one | appos |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 region | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 region | det |
| 31 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 port | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 functioning | punct |
| 33 | functioning | functioning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 port | parataxis |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 component | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 component | det |
| 36 | crucial | crucial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 component | amod |
| 37 | component | component | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 functioning | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 economy | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 economy | det |
| 40 | Uruguayan | Uruguayan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 economy | compound |
| 41 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 component | nmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 trade | cc |
| 43 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 trade | amod |
| 44 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 component | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | the Bay of Montevideo | a natural harbor | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location harbor=Theme | ||||
| 2 | compose | the Uruguayan economy | nom component «cognition 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.
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