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title: Since its return to democracy in 1990, Chile has been an active part… — Chile · tree and pragmatics
description: Since its return to democracy in 1990, Chile has been an active participant in the international political arena. Who acts: Chile, coup. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chile» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Chile, sentence 330

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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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Since its return to democracy in 1990, Chile has been an active participant in the international political arena.

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**Who acts:** Chile, coup · **What happens:** be, return · **To what, where:** active participant, international political arena

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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 (Chile, coup), 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:330
# text = Since its return to democracy in 1990, Chile has been an active participant in the international political arena.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	Chile	Chile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	participant	participant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	arena	arena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · perfect | Chile | a active participant |  | the international political arena | since coup's return to democracy in 1990 |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** |  | coup |  |  |  |  | to democracy in 1990 | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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