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title: They received farm machinery, tractors, fertilizers, seeds and breed… — Bolivia · tree and pragmatics
description: They received farm machinery, tractors, fertilizers, seeds and breeding stock, while the state built irrigation systems, roads and bridges to make it easier for them to sell their produce in the markets. Who acts: conditions, state. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bolivia» with its dependency tree and pr
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# Bolivia, sentence 387

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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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They received farm machinery, tractors, fertilizers, seeds and breeding stock, while the state built irrigation systems, roads and bridges to make it easier for them to sell their produce in the markets.

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**Who acts:** conditions, state · **What happens:** receive, build, make, sell · **To what, where:** farm machinery, stock, produce, markets

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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 (conditions, state), 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:387
# text = They received farm machinery, tractors, fertilizers, seeds and breeding stock, while the state built irrigation systems, roads and bridges to make it easier for them to sell their produce in the markets.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	machinery	machinery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	tractors	tractor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	fertilizers	fertilizer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	breeding	breeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
18	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
19	irrigation	irrigation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	systems	system	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	appos	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	bridges	bridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	xcomp	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	produce	produce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	markets	market	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | conditions *= condition* | farm machinery and tractors and fertilizers |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machinery=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | the state  built irrigation systems | stock |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 4 | **sell** | to-infinitive | conditions *= condition* | conditions's produce |  | the markets |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent produce=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, «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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