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title: The flag originated with the insurgency movement against the colonia… — Bogotá · tree and pragmatics
description: The flag originated with the insurgency movement against the colonial authorities which began on 20 July 1810, during which the rebels wore armbands with yellow and red bands, as these colors were those of the Spanish flag used as the flag for the New Kingdom of Granada. Who acts: flag, rebels, colo
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# Bogotá, sentence 624

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From Wikipedia, [«Bogotá»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogotá), 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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The flag originated with the insurgency movement against the colonial authorities which began on 20 July 1810, during which the rebels wore armbands with yellow and red bands, as these colors were those of the Spanish flag used as the flag for the New Kingdom of Granada.

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**Who acts:** flag, rebels, colors · **What happens:** originate, begin, wear, be, use · **To what, where:** flag, 20, armbands, Spanish flag

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bogotá». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flag, rebels, colors), 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:Bogotá:624
# text = The flag originated with the insurgency movement against the colonial authorities which began on 20 July 1810, during which the rebels wore armbands with yellow and red bands, as these colors were those of the Spanish flag used as the flag for the New Kingdom of Granada.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	originated	originate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	insurgency	insurgency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
16	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	1810	1810	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	during	during	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rebels	rebel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
24	armbands	armband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
40	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	flat	_	_
47	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	Granada	Granada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **originate** | participle |  | the flag *not said here* |  |  |  | with the insurgency movement against the colonial authorities | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with movement=Instrument |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the flag |  |  | 20  July |  | which *nsubj* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **wear** | past | the rebels | armbands |  |  |  | with yellow bands; which *obl* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent armband=Source |
| 4 | **is** | past | this colors |  |  |  |  | as those; of the Spanish flag | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** | participle |  | the Spanish flag *not said here* |  |  |  | as the flag for the New Kingdom of Granada | vn eat-39.1 «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, «Bogotá», 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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