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title: Another theory points to the similarity of the valley of the Aconcag… — Chile · tree and pragmatics
description: Another theory points to the similarity of the valley of the Aconcagua with that of the Casma Valley in Peru, where there was a town and valley named Chili. Who acts: theory, Casma Valley. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chile» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Chile, sentence 19

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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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Another theory points to the similarity of the valley of the Aconcagua with that of the Casma Valley in Peru, where there was a town and valley named Chili.

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**Who acts:** theory, Casma Valley · **What happens:** point, be, name · **To what, where:** similarity, town

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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 (theory, Casma Valley), 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:19
# text = Another theory points to the similarity of the valley of the Aconcagua with that of the Casma Valley in Peru, where there was a town and valley named Chili.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	theory	theory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	points	point	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	similarity	similarity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Aconcagua	Aconcagua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Casma	Casma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Peru	Peru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
30	Chili	Chili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	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 | **point** | present | another theory |  | the similarity of the valley of the Aconcagua |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to similarity=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Casma Valley with that in Peru | a town and valley |  |  |  | valley *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** | participle |  | a town and valley *not said here* |  |  |  | Chili *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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