Uruguay, sentence 409
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.
A wave of bands appeared in Montevideo, including Los Shakers, Los Iracundos, Los Moonlights, and Los Malditos, of which all became major figures in the so-called Uruguayan Invasion of Argentina.
Who acts: wave, Los · What happens: appear, become, call, wave · To what, where: Montevideo, major figures, called Uruguayan Invasion, bands · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wave, Los), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wave | det |
| 2 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 bands | case |
| 4 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wave | nmod |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Montevideo | case |
| 7 | Montevideo | montevideo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Shakers | punct |
| 9 | including | including | ADP | _ | 11 Shakers | case |
| 10 | Los | Los | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Shakers | compound |
| 11 | Shakers | Shaker | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 appeared | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Los | punct |
| 13 | Los | Los | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Shakers | appos |
| 14 | Iracundos | Iracundos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Los | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Moonlights | punct |
| 16 | Los | Los | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Moonlights | compound |
| 17 | Moonlights | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Shakers | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 became | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 became | cc |
| 20 | Los | Los | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 became | nsubj |
| 21 | Malditos | Malditos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Los | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 became | punct |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 became | obl |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 became | nsubj |
| 26 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | conj |
| 27 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 figures | amod |
| 28 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 became | xcomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Invasion | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Invasion | det |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 called | advmod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 so | punct |
| 33 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 Invasion | amod |
| 34 | Uruguayan | Uruguayan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Invasion | compound |
| 35 | Invasion | Invasion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 became | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Argentina | case |
| 37 | Argentina | Argentina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Invasion | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a wave of bands | Montevideo | including Los Shakers and Los Moonlights | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in montevideo=Location | |||
| 2 | become | past | Los | major figures | in the called Uruguayan Invasion of Argentina result; which obl | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in invasion=Result | |||
| 3 | call | participle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | wave | bands | nom wave «event 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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