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title: Centuries prior to Spanish colonization, much of what would become B… — Bolivia · tree and pragmatics
description: Centuries prior to Spanish colonization, much of what would become Bolivia formed part of the Tiwanaku polity, which collapsed around 1000 AD. Who acts: Centuries, Tiwanaku polity. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bolivia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bolivia, sentence 16

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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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Centuries prior to Spanish colonization, much of what would become Bolivia formed part of the Tiwanaku polity, which collapsed around 1000 AD.

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**Who acts:** Centuries, Tiwanaku polity · **What happens:** become, form, collapse · **To what, where:** part, 1000

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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 (Centuries, Tiwanaku polity), 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:16
# text = Centuries prior to Spanish colonization, much of what would become Bolivia formed part of the Tiwanaku polity, which collapsed around 1000 AD.
1	Centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
2	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	colonization	colonization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	Bolivia	Bolivia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
13	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Tiwanaku	Tiwanaku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	polity	polity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	collapsed	collapse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	around	around	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
24	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj*; Bolivia *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **form** | past | Centuries prior Spanish colonization | part of the Tiwanaku polity |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme |
| 3 | **collapse** | past | the Tiwanaku polity |  |  | 1000  AD |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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