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title: Most Spanish colonies in the Americas, and Portuguese Brazil, became… — How empires fell: the map of the 20th century · tree and pragmatics
description: Most Spanish colonies in the Americas, and Portuguese Brazil, became independent between about 1810 and 1825, with leaders such as Simón Bolívar. Who acts: Most Spanish colonies. A sentence of the lesson «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» of the geography course of Mova's primary school
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# How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 10

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Most Spanish colonies in the Americas, and Portuguese Brazil, became independent between about 1810 and 1825, with leaders such as Simón Bolívar.

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**Who acts:** Most Spanish colonies · **What happens:** become

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most Spanish colonies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:037-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century.lesson:10
# text = Most Spanish colonies in the Americas, and Portuguese Brazil, became independent between about 1810 and 1825, with leaders such as Simón Bolívar.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 037-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Americas	Americas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
16	1810	1810	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	1825	1825	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	Simón	Simón	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Bolívar	Bolívar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Most Spanish colonies in the Americas and Portuguese |  |  |  |  | with leaders such Simón Bolívar; independent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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