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title: The 1964 presidential election of Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Mo… — Chile · tree and pragmatics
description: The 1964 presidential election of Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Montalva by an absolute majority initiated a period of major reform. Who acts: absolute majority. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chile» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Chile, sentence 108

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From Wikipedia, [«Chile»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile), 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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The 1964 presidential election of Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Montalva by an absolute majority initiated a period of major reform.

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**Who acts:** absolute majority · **What happens:** initiate, elect · **To what, where:** period, Eduardo, Christian Democrat

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Chile». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (absolute majority), 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:Chile:108
# text = The 1964 presidential election of Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Montalva by an absolute majority initiated a period of major reform.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	1964	1964	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	_	7	flat	_	_
7	Democrat	Democrat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	Eduardo	Eduardo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	Frei	Frei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	Montalva	Montalva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	absolute	absolute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
15	initiated	initiate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	reform	reform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **initiate** | participle | a absolute majority *not said here* | a period of major reform |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Patient |
| 3 | **elect** |  |  | Christian Democrat |  |  |  |  | nom election «act 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, «Chile», 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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