Santiago, sentence 50
From Wikipedia, «Santiago», 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 Picunches had adopted a strategy of halting cultivation and retreating to more remote locations, which isolated the Spanish and forced them to resort to eating whatever they could find.
Who acts: strategy, more remote locations, Picunches · What happens: adopt, halt, retreat, isolate, force, resort · To what, where: Picunches, cultivation, more remote locations, Spanish, whatever
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Santiago». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strategy, more remote locations, Picunches), 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 Picunches | det |
| 2 | Picunches | picunch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 adopted | aux |
| 4 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 strategy | det |
| 6 | strategy | strategy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adopted | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 halting | mark |
| 8 | halting | halt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 strategy | acl |
| 9 | cultivation | cultivation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 halting | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 retreating | cc |
| 11 | retreating | retreat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 halting | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 locations | case |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 locations | amod |
| 14 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 locations | amod |
| 15 | locations | location | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 retreating | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 isolated | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 isolated | nsubj |
| 18 | isolated | isolate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 locations | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Spanish | det |
| 20 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 isolated | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 forced | cc |
| 22 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 isolated | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 forced | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 resort | mark |
| 25 | resort | resort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 forced | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 27 eating | mark |
| 27 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 resort | advcl |
| 28 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 find | obj |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 find | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 find | aux |
| 31 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 eating | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 adopted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | past · perfect · passive | the Picunches | a strategy obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme strategy=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | halt | gerund | a strategy not said here | cultivation | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector cultivation=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | retreat | gerund | a strategy not said here | more remote locations | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to location=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | isolate | past | more remote locations | the Spanish | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spanish=Theme | ||||
| 5 | force | past | more remote locations not said here | Picunches = picunch | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | resort | to-infinitive | Picunches = picunch not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | eat | gerund | Picunches = picunch not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | find | could | Picunches = picunch | whatever | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic |
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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