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title: After a resurgence of gas protests in 2005, Carlos Mesa attempted to… — Bolivia · tree and pragmatics
description: After a resurgence of gas protests in 2005, Carlos Mesa attempted to resign in January 2005, but his offer was refused by Congress. Who acts: Carlos, Congress, gas protests. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bolivia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bolivia, sentence 156

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From Wikipedia, [«Bolivia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia), 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 a resurgence of gas protests in 2005, Carlos Mesa attempted to resign in January 2005, but his offer was refused by Congress.

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**Who acts:** Carlos, Congress, gas protests · **What happens:** attempt, resign, refuse, resurge, offer · **To what, where:** offer

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bolivia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carlos, Congress, gas protests), 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:Bolivia:156
# text = After a resurgence of gas protests in 2005, Carlos Mesa attempted to resign in January 2005, but his offer was refused by Congress.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	resurgence	resurgence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	Carlos	Carlos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Mesa	Mesa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	resign	resign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	refused	refuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | past | Carlos |  |  |  | after a resurgence of gas protests in 2005 |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **resign** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Carlos *not said here* |  |  |  | january |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **refuse** | past · passive | Congress | Carlos's offer |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **resurge** |  | gas protests in 2005 |  |  |  |  |  | nom resurgence «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **offer** |  | Carlos |  |  |  |  |  | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=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, «Bolivia», 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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