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title: On the night of 14 and 15 May 1811, the rebels succeeded and forced… — Asunción · tree and pragmatics
description: On the night of 14 and 15 May 1811, the rebels succeeded and forced governor Velasco to surrender. Who acts: rebels. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Asunción» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Asunción, sentence 49

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From Wikipedia, [«Asunción»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asunción), 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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On the night of 14 and 15 May 1811, the rebels succeeded and forced governor Velasco to surrender.

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**Who acts:** rebels · **What happens:** succeed, force, surrender

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Asunción». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rebels), 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:Asunción:49
# text = On the night of 14 and 15 May 1811, the rebels succeeded and forced governor Velasco to surrender.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	1811	1811	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rebels	rebel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	Velasco	Velasco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	surrender	surrender	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past | the rebels |  |  |  | night | forced governor *conj* | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **force** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **surrender** | to-infinitive | the rebels *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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, «Asunción», 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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