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title: Peasants and the Bolivian army fought briefly but after a few victor… — Bolivia · tree and pragmatics
description: Peasants and the Bolivian army fought briefly but after a few victories, and facing the prospect of a total war against Brazil, it was forced to sign the Treaty of Petrópolis in 1903, in which Bolivia lost this rich territory. Who acts: Peasants, prospect, Bolivia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bolivia
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# Bolivia, sentence 94

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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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Peasants and the Bolivian army fought briefly but after a few victories, and facing the prospect of a total war against Brazil, it was forced to sign the Treaty of Petrópolis in 1903, in which Bolivia lost this rich territory.

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**Who acts:** Peasants, prospect, Bolivia · **What happens:** fight, face, force, sign, lose, prospect · **To what, where:** prospect, Treaty, 1903, rich territory, total war

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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 (Peasants, prospect, Bolivia), 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:94
# text = Peasants and the Bolivian army fought briefly but after a few victories, and facing the prospect of a total war against Brazil, it was forced to sign the Treaty of Petrópolis in 1903, in which Bolivia lost this rich territory.
1	Peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Bolivian	Bolivian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	briefly	briefly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	victories	victory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
15	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	against	against	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	sign	sign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Petrópolis	Petrópolis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	1903	1903	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obl	_	_
39	Bolivia	Bolivia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
41	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
42	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | Peasants and the Bolivian army |  |  |  |  | a few victories *conj*; briefly *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **face** | gerund |  | the prospect of a total war against Brazil |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme prospect=Destination |
| 3 | **force** | past · passive |  | prospect |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **sign** | to-infinitive | prospect *not said here* | the Treaty of Petrópolis |  | 1903 |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent treaty=Theme in 1903=Destination |
| 5 | **lose** | past | Bolivia | this rich territory |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Eventuality |
| 6 | **prospect** |  |  | a total war against Brazil |  |  |  |  | nom prospect «state transitive»: of=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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