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title: However, the Civil War had also been a contest between those who fav… — Chile · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the Civil War had also been a contest between those who favored the development of local industries and powerful Chilean banking interests, particularly the House of Edwards which had strong ties to foreign investors. Who acts: Civil War, development. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chile» with 
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# Chile, sentence 88

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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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However, the Civil War had also been a contest between those who favored the development of local industries and powerful Chilean banking interests, particularly the House of Edwards which had strong ties to foreign investors.

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**Who acts:** Civil War, development · **What happens:** have, be, favor, develop · **To what, where:** contest, development, strong ties, local industries

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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 (Civil War, development), 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:88
# text = However, the Civil War had also been a contest between those who favored the development of local industries and powerful Chilean banking interests, particularly the House of Edwards which had strong ties to foreign investors.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Civil	Civil	PROPN	NNP	_	5	flat	_	_
5	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	nmod	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	favored	favor	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	industries	industry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	Chilean	chilean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	banking	banking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	interests	interest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Edwards	Edwards	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
33	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	investors	investor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Civil War |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | a contest |  |  |  | between those | tree rules |
| 3 | **favor** | past |  | the development of local industries and powerful Chilean banking interests |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer development=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | past | the development of local industries and powerful Chilean banking interests | strong ties |  |  |  | to foreign investors | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tie=Patient |
| 5 | **develop** |  |  | local industries and powerful Chilean banking interests |  |  |  |  | nom development «act 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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