Uruguay, sentence 363
From Wikipedia, «Uruguay», 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.
Originally, they were Vaudois who become Waldensians, giving their name to the city Colonia Valdense, which translated from the Spanish to mean "Waldensian Colony".
Who acts: speakers, Colonia · What happens: be, become, give, translate, mean, name · To what, where: Vaudois, name, city, Waldensian
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Uruguay». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (speakers, Colonia), 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 | Originally | originally | ADV | _ | 7 become | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Vaudois | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Vaudois | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Vaudois | cop |
| 5 | Vaudois | Vaudois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 become | obl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 become | nsubj |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Waldensians | Waldensian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 become | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 giving | punct |
| 10 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 become | advcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 name | nmod:poss |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 giving | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 giving | obl |
| 16 | Colonia | Colonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 city | appos |
| 17 | Valdense | Valdense | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Colonia | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 translated | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 translated | nsubj |
| 20 | translated | translate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Colonia | acl:relcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Spanish | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Spanish | det |
| 23 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 translated | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 mean | mark |
| 25 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 Spanish | xcomp |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Waldensian | punct |
| 27 | Waldensian | Waldensian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 mean | obj |
| 28 | Colony | Colony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Waldensian | flat |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Waldensian | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | speakers = speaker | Vaudois | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | present | who nsubj; Waldensians xcomp; originally property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | give | gerund | speakers's name | the city | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to city=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | translate | past | Colonia | spanish property | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | mean | to-infinitive | Colonia not said here | Waldensian | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waldensian=Topic | ||||
| 6 | name | speakers = speaker | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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