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title: On 27 February 2010, Chile was struck by an 8.8 earthquake, the fift… — Chile · tree and pragmatics
description: On 27 February 2010, Chile was struck by an 8.8 earthquake, the fifth largest ever recorded at the time. Who acts: 8.8 earthquake. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chile» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Chile, sentence 158

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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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On 27 February 2010, Chile was struck by an 8.8 earthquake, the fifth largest ever recorded at the time.

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**Who acts:** 8.8 earthquake · **What happens:** strike, record · **To what, where:** Chile

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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 (8.8 earthquake), 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:158
# text = On 27 February 2010, Chile was struck by an 8.8 earthquake, the fifth largest ever recorded at the time.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Chile	Chile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	8.8	8.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	parataxis	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past · passive | a 8.8 earthquake | Chile |  |  |  | on 27  2010  February | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument on 27=Patient |
| 2 | **record** | participle |  |  |  |  | ever; time |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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