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title: In 1806 the British successfully invaded Buenos Aires, but an army f… — Buenos Aires · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1806 the British successfully invaded Buenos Aires, but an army from Montevideo led by Santiago de Liniers defeated them. Who acts: British, army. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Buenos Aires» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Buenos Aires, sentence 57

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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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In 1806 the British successfully invaded Buenos Aires, but an army from Montevideo led by Santiago de Liniers defeated them.

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**Who acts:** British, army · **What happens:** invade, lead, defeat · **To what, where:** Buenos, 1806, army

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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 (British, army), 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:57
# text = In 1806 the British successfully invaded Buenos Aires, but an army from Montevideo led by Santiago de Liniers defeated them.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1806	1806	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
5	successfully	successfully	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	invaded	invade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Buenos	Buenos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Aires	Aires	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Montevideo	montevideo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Santiago	Santiago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	Liniers	linier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invade** | past | the British | Buenos |  | 1806 |  | successfully *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | participle |  | a army from Montevideo *not said here* |  |  |  | by Santiago Liniers | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by linier=Destination |
| 3 | **defeat** | past | a army from Montevideo | Buenos |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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