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title: Independence from the Spanish Empire was declared in 1810, with what… — Colombia · tree and pragmatics
description: Independence from the Spanish Empire was declared in 1810, with what is now Colombia emerging as the United Provinces of New Granada. Who acts: Colombia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Colombia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Colombia, sentence 11

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From Wikipedia, [«Colombia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia), 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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Independence from the Spanish Empire was declared in 1810, with what is now Colombia emerging as the United Provinces of New Granada.

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**Who acts:** Colombia · **What happens:** declare, be, emerge · **To what, where:** Independence, 1810, Colombia

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Colombia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Colombia), 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:Colombia:11
# text = Independence from the Spanish Empire was declared in 1810, with what is now Colombia emerging as the United Provinces of New Granada.
1	Independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1810	1810	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	Colombia	Colombia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	emerging	emerge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Provinces	Province	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Granada	Granada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | Independence from the Spanish Empire |  | 1810 |  | what *obl* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | Colombia |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **emerge** | gerund | Colombia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the United Provinces of New Granada | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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, «Colombia», 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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