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title: In March 1982, an Argentine force took control of the British territ… — Argentina · tree and pragmatics
description: In March 1982, an Argentine force took control of the British territory of South Georgia and, on 2 April, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands (called as Islas Malvinas by Argentina). Who acts: Argentine force, Argentina. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Argentina» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Argentina, sentence 179

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From Wikipedia, [«Argentina»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In March 1982, an Argentine force took control of the British territory of South Georgia and, on 2 April, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands (called as Islas Malvinas by Argentina).

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**Who acts:** Argentine force, Argentina · **What happens:** take, invade, call · **To what, where:** control, 2, Falkland Islands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Argentina». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Argentine force, Argentina), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Argentina:179
# text = In March 1982, an Argentine force took control of the British territory of South Georgia and, on 2 April, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands (called as Islas Malvinas by Argentina).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	1982	1982	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Argentine	Argentine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
21	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	Argentina	Argentina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	invaded	invade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Falkland	Falkland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	parataxis	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Islas	Islas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	_
32	Malvinas	Malvinas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Argentina	Argentina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | a Argentine force | control of the British territory of South Georgia |  | 2  April | march |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent control=Theme on 2=Destination |
| 2 | **invade** | past | Argentina | the Falkland Islands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Islas by Argentina *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Argentina», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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