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Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina's most acclaimed writer and one of the foremost figures in the history of literature, found new ways of looking at the modern world in metaphor and philosophical debate and his influence has extended to authors all over the globe. **Who acts:** Jorge Luis, new ways · **What happens:** acclaim, find, look, extend · **To what, where:** new ways, influence, authors, globe 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 (Jorge Luis, new ways), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Argentina:495 # text = Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina's most acclaimed writer and one of the foremost figures in the history of literature, found new ways of looking at the modern world in metaphor and philosophical debate and his influence has extended to authors all over the globe. 1 Jorge Jorge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Luis Luis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 3 Borges Borges PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 Argentina Argentina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 8 advmod _ _ 8 acclaimed acclaim VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 writer writer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 conj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 foremost foremost ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 figures figure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 literature literature NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 22 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 of of SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 metaphor metaphor NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 philosophical philosophical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 debate debate NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 influence influence NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 extended extend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 conj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 authors author NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 43 all all ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 44 over over ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 globe globe NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **acclaim** | participle | | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **find** | past | Jorge Luis | new ways | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 3 | **look** | gerund | new ways *not said here* | | | | | in metaphor and philosophical debate; at the modern world | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at world=Theme | | 4 | **extend** | present · perfect · passive | | Luis's influence | authors | the globe | | | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to author=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 494](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Argentina/494/) - next →: [sentence 496](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Argentina/496/) - ↑ back to [Argentina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Argentina/)