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title: Pato is the national sport, an ancient horseback game locally origin… — Argentina · tree and pragmatics
description: Pato is the national sport, an ancient horseback game locally originated in the early 1600s and predecessor of horseball. Who acts: Pato. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Argentina» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Argentina, sentence 546

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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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Pato is the national sport, an ancient horseback game locally originated in the early 1600s and predecessor of horseball.

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**Who acts:** Pato · **What happens:** be, originate · **To what, where:** national sport, ancient horseback game, early 1600s

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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 (Pato), 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:546
# text = Pato is the national sport, an ancient horseback game locally originated in the early 1600s and predecessor of horseball.
1	Pato	Pato	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	locally	locally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	originated	originate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	1600s	1600	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	predecessor	predecessor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	horseball	horseball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Pato | the national sport |  |  |  | a ancient horseback game *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **originate** | participle |  | a ancient horseback game *not said here* |  | the early 1600s and predecessor of horseball |  | locally *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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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