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title: After López died in 1862, his son Francisco Solano López became the… — Asunción · tree and pragmatics
description: After López died in 1862, his son Francisco Solano López became the new president and led the country through the disastrous Paraguayan War that lasted for five years (1864–1870). Who acts: López, son, disastrous Paraguayan War. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Asunción» with its dependency tree and pragm
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# Asunción, sentence 55

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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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After López died in 1862, his son Francisco Solano López became the new president and led the country through the disastrous Paraguayan War that lasted for five years (1864–1870).

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**Who acts:** López, son, disastrous Paraguayan War · **What happens:** die, become, lead, last · **To what, where:** new president, country, disastrous Paraguayan War, 1864

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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 (López, son, disastrous Paraguayan 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:Asunción:55
# text = After López died in 1862, his son Francisco Solano López became the new president and led the country through the disastrous Paraguayan War that lasted for five years (1864–1870).
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	López	López	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1862	1862	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	Francisco	Francisco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	Solano	Solano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	López	López	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	disastrous	disastrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	Paraguayan	Paraguayan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	War	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	1864	1864	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	33	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	1870	1870	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | López |  |  |  |  | in 1862 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1862=Attribute |
| 2 | **become** | past | López's son | the new president |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **lead** | past | López's son *not said here* | the country |  | the disastrous Paraguayan War |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent country=Theme through war=Destination |
| 4 | **last** | past | the disastrous Paraguayan War | 1864 – 1870 |  |  | year |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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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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