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description: In the first clashes of the Independence War the Junta crushed a royalist counter-revolution in Córdoba, but failed to overcome those of the Banda Oriental, Upper Peru and Paraguay, which later became independent states. Who acts: Independence War. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Argentina» with its depe
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# Argentina, sentence 59

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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 the first clashes of the Independence War the Junta crushed a royalist counter-revolution in Córdoba, but failed to overcome those of the Banda Oriental, Upper Peru and Paraguay, which later became independent states.

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**Who acts:** Independence War · **What happens:** crush, fail, not overcome, become, clash · **To what, where:** royalist counter-revolution, first clashes, those, independent states

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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 (Independence War), 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:59
# text = In the first clashes of the Independence War the Junta crushed a royalist counter-revolution in Córdoba, but failed to overcome those of the Banda Oriental, Upper Peru and Paraguay, which later became independent states.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	clashes	clash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Independence	Independence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Junta	Junta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	crushed	crush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	royalist	royalist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	counter-revolution	counter-revolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Córdoba	Córdoba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Banda	Banda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Oriental	Oriental	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Upper	Upper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Peru	Peru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Paraguay	Paraguay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
35	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
36	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crush** | past |  | a royalist counter-revolution |  | the first clashes of the Independence War |  | in Córdoba | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counter-revolution=Patient |
| 2 | **fail** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **overcome** | to-infinitive |  | those of the Banda Oriental and Paraguay |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past |  | independent states |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; late *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **clash** |  | the Independence War |  |  |  |  |  | nom clash «event intransitive»: of=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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