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title: Argentina excels in natural gas production, being the largest produc… — Argentina · tree and pragmatics
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# Argentina, sentence 327

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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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Argentina excels in natural gas production, being the largest producer in South America and the 18th-largest globally.

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**Who acts:** Argentina · **What happens:** excel, be · **To what, where:** natural gas production, largest producer, South America

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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 (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:327
# text = Argentina excels in natural gas production, being the largest producer in South America and the 18th-largest globally.
1	Argentina	Argentina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	excels	excel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	producer	producer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	18th	18th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	conj	_	_
20	globally	globally	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **excel** | present | Argentina |  |  | natural gas production |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in production=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund |  | the largest producer |  | South America |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | globally *property* | tree rules |

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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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