Peru, sentence 74
From Wikipedia, «Peru», 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.
In this endeavor, the church came to play an important role in the acculturation of the Natives, drawing them into the cultural orbit of the Spanish settlers.
Who acts: church, Natives · What happens: come, play, draw, acculturate · To what, where: endeavor, important role, acculturation, churches, cultural orbit
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Peru». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church, Natives), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 endeavor | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 endeavor | det |
| 3 | endeavor | endeavor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 endeavor | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 church | det |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 play | mark |
| 9 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | xcomp |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 role | det |
| 11 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 role | amod |
| 12 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 play | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 acculturation | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 acculturation | det |
| 15 | acculturation | acculturation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 play | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Natives | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Natives | det |
| 18 | Natives | Native | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 acculturation | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drawing | punct |
| 20 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 play | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 drawing | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 orbit | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 orbit | det |
| 24 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 orbit | amod |
| 25 | orbit | orbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drawing | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 settlers | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 settlers | det |
| 28 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 settlers | amod |
| 29 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 orbit | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the church | this endeavor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | the church not said here | a important role | the acculturation of the Natives | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme | |||
| 3 | draw | gerund | the church not said here | churches = church | into the cultural orbit of the Spanish settlers result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Patient into orbit=Result | |||
| 4 | acculturate | the Natives | nom acculturation «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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