--- title: Between 1878 and 1884, the so-called Conquest of the Desert occurred… — Argentina · tree and pragmatics description: Between 1878 and 1884, the so-called Conquest of the Desert occurred, with the purpose of tripling the Argentine territory by means of the constant confrontations between natives and Criollos in the border, and the appropriation of the indigenous territories. Who acts: Conquest, purpose. 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Between 1878 and 1884, the so-called Conquest of the Desert occurred, with the purpose of tripling the Argentine territory by means of the constant confrontations between natives and Criollos in the border, and the appropriation of the indigenous territories. **Who acts:** Conquest, purpose · **What happens:** call, occur, triple, mean · **To what, where:** Conquest, appropriation, 1878, Argentine territory · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Conquest, purpose), 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:96 # text = Between 1878 and 1884, the so-called Conquest of the Desert occurred, with the purpose of tripling the Argentine territory by means of the constant confrontations between natives and Criollos in the border, and the appropriation of the indigenous territories. 1 Between between ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1878 1878 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 1884 1884 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 10 Conquest Conquest PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Desert Desert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 occurred occur VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 of of SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 tripling triple VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Argentine Argentine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 territory territory NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 constant constant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 confrontations confrontation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 between between ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 natives native NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 Criollos criollo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 appropriation appropriation NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 indigenous indigenous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 territories territory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | | the Conquest of the Desert *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **occur** | past | the Conquest of the Desert | the appropriation of the indigenous territories | | 1878 | | with the purpose | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between 1878=Location | | 3 | **triple** | gerund | the purpose *not said here* | the Argentine territory | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent territory=Patient | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | of the constant confrontations between natives in the border and Criollos | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Argentina/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Argentina/97/) - ↑ back to [Argentina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Argentina/)