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title: The Chilean Congress conducted a runoff vote between the leading can… — Chile · tree and pragmatics
description: The Chilean Congress conducted a runoff vote between the leading candidates, Allende and former president Jorge Alessandri, and, keeping with tradition, chose Allende by a vote of 153 to 35. Who acts: Chilean Congress, keeping. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chile» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Chile, sentence 114

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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 Chilean Congress conducted a runoff vote between the leading candidates, Allende and former president Jorge Alessandri, and, keeping with tradition, chose Allende by a vote of 153 to 35.

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**Who acts:** Chilean Congress, keeping · **What happens:** conduct, lead, keep, choose · **To what, where:** runoff vote, leading candidates, Allende

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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 (Chilean Congress, keeping), 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:114
# text = The Chilean Congress conducted a runoff vote between the leading candidates, Allende and former president Jorge Alessandri, and, keeping with tradition, chose Allende by a vote of 153 to 35.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Chilean	chilean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	runoff	runoff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Allende	Allende	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Jorge	Jorge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	Alessandri	Alessandri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	csubj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
26	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	Allende	Allende	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	153	153	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	35	35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | past | the Chilean Congress | a runoff vote |  | the leading candidates |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vote=Theme between candidate=Destination |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **keep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with tradition | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **choose** | past | keeping | Allende |  |  |  | by a vote of 153 to 35 | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent allende=Theme |

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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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