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title: In the Santa Cruz Department, there are several dozen colonies of Ge… — Bolivia · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Santa Cruz Department, there are several dozen colonies of German-speaking Mennonites from Russia totaling around 40,000 inhabitants (as of 2012). Who acts: dozen colonies, speaking Mennonites. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bolivia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bolivia, sentence 482

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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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In the Santa Cruz Department, there are several dozen colonies of German-speaking Mennonites from Russia totaling around 40,000 inhabitants (as of 2012).

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**Who acts:** dozen colonies, speaking Mennonites · **What happens:** be, speak, total · **To what, where:** Santa Cruz Department, 40,000 inhabitants · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dozen colonies, speaking Mennonites), 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:482
# text = In the Santa Cruz Department, there are several dozen colonies of German-speaking Mennonites from Russia totaling around 40,000 inhabitants (as of 2012).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Santa	Santa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	Cruz	Cruz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	Mennonites	mennonite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	totaling	total	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
20	around	around	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	40,000	40000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | dozen colonies of speaking Mennonites from Russia |  |  | the Santa Cruz Department; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in department=Location |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **total** | gerund | speaking Mennonites from Russia *not said here* | 40,000 inhabitants |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=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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