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title: In February 2008, millions of Colombians demonstrated against FARC a… — Colombia · tree and pragmatics
description: In February 2008, millions of Colombians demonstrated against FARC and other outlawed groups. Who acts: millions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Colombia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Colombia, sentence 144

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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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In February 2008, millions of Colombians demonstrated against FARC and other outlawed groups.

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**Who acts:** millions · **What happens:** demonstrate, outlaw

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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 (millions), 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:144
# text = In February 2008, millions of Colombians demonstrated against FARC and other outlawed groups.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Colombians	colombian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	demonstrated	demonstrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	FARC	FARC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	outlawed	outlaw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demonstrate** | past | millions of Colombians |  |  |  | february | against FARC and other outlawed groups | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **outlaw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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