Venezuela, sentence 25
From Wikipedia, «Venezuela», 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.
Previously, the country was an underdeveloped exporter of agricultural commodities such as coffee and cocoa, but oil quickly came to dominate exports and government revenues.
Who acts: country, oil · What happens: underdevelop, be, come · To what, where: underdeveloped exporter, dominate exports
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Venezuela». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, oil), 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 | Previously | previously | ADV | _ | 4 country | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Previously | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 country | det |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exporter | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 exporter | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 exporter | det |
| 7 | underdeveloped | underdevelop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 exporter | amod |
| 8 | exporter | exporter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 commodities | case |
| 10 | agricultural | agricultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 commodities | amod |
| 11 | commodities | commodity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 exporter | nmod |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 14 coffee | case |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 such | fixed |
| 14 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 commodities | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cocoa | cc |
| 16 | cocoa | cocoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coffee | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 19 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 20 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 exporter | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 exports | case |
| 23 | dominate | dominant | ADJ | Degree=Pos Typo=Yes | 24 exports | amod |
| 24 | exports | export | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 came | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 revenues | cc |
| 26 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 revenues | compound |
| 27 | revenues | revenue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 exports | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 exporter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | underdevelop | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the country | a underdeveloped exporter | of agricultural commodities such coffee and cocoa | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | past | oil | dominate exports and government revenues | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to export=Initial_Location |
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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