--- title: The Andes, as he had done previously Cordillera de la Costa, begins… — Chile · tree and pragmatics description: The Andes, as he had done previously Cordillera de la Costa, begins to break in the ocean causing a myriad of islands and islets and disappear into it, sinking and reappearing in the Southern Antilles arc and then the Antarctic Peninsula, where it is called Antartandes, in the Chilean Antarctic Terr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Chile/224/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Chile](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Chile/) / 224 # Chile, sentence 224 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. The Andes, as he had done previously Cordillera de la Costa, begins to break in the ocean causing a myriad of islands and islets and disappear into it, sinking and reappearing in the Southern Antilles arc and then the Antarctic Peninsula, where it is called Antartandes, in the Chilean Antarctic Territory, lying between the meridians 53°W and 90°W. **Who acts:** east · **What happens:** do, begin, break, cause, disappear, sink · **To what, where:** Cordillera, Andes, ocean, myriad, Southern Antilles arc, 53 · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (east), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:224 # text = The Andes, as he had done previously Cordillera de la Costa, begins to break in the ocean causing a myriad of islands and islets and disappear into it, sinking and reappearing in the Southern Antilles arc and then the Antarctic Peninsula, where it is called Antartandes, in the Chilean Antarctic Territory, lying between the meridians 53°W and 90°W. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Andes Ande PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 8 previously previously ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 Cordillera Cordillera PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 9 flat:foreign _ _ 11 la la X FW Foreign=Yes 9 appos _ _ 12 Costa Costa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 causing cause VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 myriad myriad NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 islets islet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 disappear disappear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 sinking sink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 advcl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 reappearing reappear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 conj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 Southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 Antilles Antilles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 arc arc NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 41 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 44 advmod _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 Antarctic Antarctic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 Peninsula Peninsula PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 49 advmod _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj:pass _ _ 48 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux:pass _ _ 49 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl:relcl _ _ 50 Antartandes Antartandes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 54 Chilean chilean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 55 Antarctic Antarctic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 compound _ _ 56 Territory territory NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 conj _ _ 59 between between ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 meridians meridian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 obl _ _ 62 53 53 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 58 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ° ° SYM SYM _ 64 case _ SpaceAfter=No 64 W W PROPN NNP Number=Sing 62 nmod _ _ 65 and and CCONJ CC _ 66 cc _ _ 66 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 62 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 67 ° ° SYM SYM _ 68 case _ SpaceAfter=No 68 W. W. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 66 nmod _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past · perfect | east | Cordillera | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ande=Eventuality | | 2 | **begin** | present | | the Andes | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **break** | to-infinitive | | | | the ocean | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location | | 4 | **cause** | gerund | | a myriad of islands and islets | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition myriad=Patient | | 5 | **disappear** | present | | | | myriad | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **sink** | gerund | | | | | | the Antarctic Peninsula *conj* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **reappear** | gerund | | | | the Southern Antilles arc | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arc=Location | | 8 | **call** | present · passive | | myriad | | | | Antartandes *xcomp*; the Chilean Antarctic Territory *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 9 | **lie** | gerund | | 53 | | | | between the meridians; ° W | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 53=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 223](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Chile/223/) - next →: [sentence 225](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Chile/225/) - ↑ back to [Chile](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Chile/)