Paraguay, sentence 335
From Wikipedia, «Paraguay», 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.
It is spoken by the so-called "Brasiguayos", Brazilians or descendants who crossed west of the border from the 1970s seeking cheap land.
Who acts: descendants, 1970s · What happens: speak, call, cross, seek · To what, where: Portuguese, 1970s, cheap land · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Paraguay». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (descendants, 1970s), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoken | aux:pass |
| 3 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 called | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 called | det |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 called | advmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 so | punct |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spoken | advcl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Brasiguayos | punct |
| 10 | Brasiguayos | Brasiguayos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Brasiguayos | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Brazilians | punct |
| 13 | Brazilians | Brazilian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 Brasiguayos | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 descendants | cc |
| 15 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Brasiguayos | conj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 crossed | nsubj |
| 17 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 descendants | acl:relcl |
| 18 | west | west | ADV | _ | 17 crossed | advmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 border | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 border | det |
| 21 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crossed | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 1970s | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 1970s | det |
| 24 | 1970s | 1970s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 17 crossed | obl |
| 25 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 1970s | acl |
| 26 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 land | amod |
| 27 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seeking | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present · passive | Portuguese | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | participle | Brasiguayos and Brazilians or descendants xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cross | past | descendants | the 1970s | of the border; west property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of border=Initial_Location from 1970s=Destination | |||
| 4 | seek | gerund | the 1970s not said here | cheap land | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |
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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