--- title: Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, re… — Chile · tree and pragmatics description: Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacing Inca rule; however, they failed to conquer the autonomous tribal Mapuche people who inhabited what is now south-central Chile. Who acts: Spain, capital, autonomous tribal Mapuche people. 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Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacing Inca rule; however, they failed to conquer the autonomous tribal Mapuche people who inhabited what is now south-central Chile. **Who acts:** Spain, capital, autonomous tribal Mapuche people · **What happens:** conquer, colonize, replace, fail, not conquer, inhabit · **To what, where:** region, Inca rule, autonomous tribal Mapuche people, south central Chile 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 (Spain, capital, autonomous tribal Mapuche people), 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:7 # text = Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacing Inca rule; however, they failed to conquer the autonomous tribal Mapuche people who inhabited what is now south-central Chile. 1 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 conquered conquer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 colonized colonize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 mid-16th mid-16th ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 10 amod _ _ 10 century century NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 replacing replace VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 13 Inca Inca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 however however ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 conquer conquer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 23 autonomous autonomous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 24 tribal tribal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 Mapuche Mapuche PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 inhabited inhabit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 28 obj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 31 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 32 south south ADV RB _ 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 central central ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 Chile Chile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **conquer** | past | Spain | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **colonize** | past | Spain *not said here* | the region | | | century | | tree rules | | 3 | **replace** | gerund | Spain *not said here* | Inca rule | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rule=Co-Theme | | 4 | **fail** | past | capital | | | | | however *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **not** **conquer** | to-infinitive | capital *not said here* | the autonomous tribal Mapuche people | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 6 | **inhabit** | past | the autonomous tribal Mapuche people | the autonomous tribal Mapuche people | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** | present | | south central Chile | | | now | | tree rules | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Chile/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Chile/8/) - ↑ back to [Chile](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Chile/)