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title: This scheme frustrated the traders of Buenos Aires, and a thriving i… — Buenos Aires · tree and pragmatics
description: This scheme frustrated the traders of Buenos Aires, and a thriving informal, yet tolerated by the authorities, contraband industry developed inside the viceroyalties and with the Portuguese. Who acts: scheme. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Buenos Aires» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Buenos Aires, sentence 50

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From Wikipedia, [«Buenos Aires»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires), 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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This scheme frustrated the traders of Buenos Aires, and a thriving informal, yet tolerated by the authorities, contraband industry developed inside the viceroyalties and with the Portuguese.

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**Who acts:** scheme · **What happens:** frustrate, thrive, tolerate, develop · **To what, where:** traders, contraband industry, viceroyalties

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Buenos Aires». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scheme), 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:Buenos_Aires:50
# text = This scheme frustrated the traders of Buenos Aires, and a thriving informal, yet tolerated by the authorities, contraband industry developed inside the viceroyalties and with the Portuguese.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	scheme	scheme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	frustrated	frustrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Buenos	Buenos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Aires	Aires	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	conj	_	_
12	thriving	thrive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	informal	informal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tolerated	tolerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	contraband	contraband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	viceroyalties	viceroyalty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frustrate** | past | this scheme | the traders of Buenos |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus trader=Experiencer |
| 2 | **thrive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | informal *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tolerate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the authorities | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **develop** | participle |  | contraband industry *not said here* |  | the viceroyalties and the Portuguese |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside viceroyalty=Location |

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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, «Buenos Aires», 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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