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title: As a result of the War of the Pacific with Peru and Bolivia (1879–83… — Chile · tree and pragmatics
description: As a result of the War of the Pacific with Peru and Bolivia (1879–83), Chile expanded its territory northward by almost one-third, eliminating Bolivia's access to the Pacific, and acquired valuable nitrate deposits, the exploitation of which led to an era of national affluence. Who acts: Chile, expl
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# Chile, sentence 81

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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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As a result of the War of the Pacific with Peru and Bolivia (1879–83), Chile expanded its territory northward by almost one-third, eliminating Bolivia's access to the Pacific, and acquired valuable nitrate deposits, the exploitation of which led to an era of national affluence.

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**Who acts:** Chile, exploitation · **What happens:** expand, eliminate, acquire, lead, result · **To what, where:** territory, access, valuable nitrate deposits, War

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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, exploitation), 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:81
# text = As a result of the War of the Pacific with Peru and Bolivia (1879–83), Chile expanded its territory northward by almost one-third, eliminating Bolivia's access to the Pacific, and acquired valuable nitrate deposits, the exploitation of which led to an era of national affluence.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Peru	Peru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Bolivia	Bolivia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	1879	1879	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	83	83	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	Chile	Chile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	expanded	expand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	eliminating	eliminate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
32	Bolivia	Bolivia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	acquired	acquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
41	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	nitrate	nitrate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	deposits	deposit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	exploitation	exploitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
49	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	affluence	affluence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expand** | past | Chile | War's territory |  |  |  | as a result of the War of the Pacific with Peru and Bolivia; by one third; northward *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent territory=Patient |
| 2 | **eliminate** | gerund | Chile *not said here* | Bolivia's access |  |  |  | to the Pacific | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent access=Patient |
| 3 | **acquire** | past | Chile *not said here* | valuable nitrate deposits and the exploitation |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset deposit=Theme |
| 4 | **lead** | past | the exploitation |  |  |  |  | to a era of national affluence | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to era=Patient |
| 5 | **result** |  |  | the War of the Pacific with Peru and Bolivia |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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