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Sebastián de Belalcázar, conqueror of Quito, traveled north and founded Cali, in 1536, and Popayán, in 1537; from 1536 to 1539, German conquistador Nikolaus Federmann crossed the Llanos Orientales and went over the Cordillera Oriental in a search for El Dorado, the "city of gold". **Who acts:** Sebastián, Nikolaus · **What happens:** travel, found, cross, go · **To what, where:** Cali, 1536, Llanos Orientales, Cordillera Oriental 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 (Sebastián, Nikolaus), 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:Colombia:60 # text = Sebastián de Belalcázar, conqueror of Quito, traveled north and founded Cali, in 1536, and Popayán, in 1537; from 1536 to 1539, German conquistador Nikolaus Federmann crossed the Llanos Orientales and went over the Cordillera Oriental in a search for El Dorado, the "city of gold". 1 Sebastián Sebastián PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Belalcázar Belalcázar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 conqueror conqueror NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Quito Quito PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 9 traveled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 north north ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 founded found VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 Cali Cali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 1536 1536 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Popayán Popayán PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 1537 1537 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 list _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 1536 1536 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 obl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 1539 1539 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 29 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 conquistador conquistador NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod:desc _ _ 31 Nikolaus Nikolaus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 Federmann Federmann PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 flat _ _ 33 crossed cross VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 Llanos Llanos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 Orientales Orientales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 39 over over ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 Cordillera Cordillera PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 Oriental Oriental PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 El El PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 48 Dorado Dorado PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 " " PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 appos _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 " " PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | past | Sebastián | | | | | Popayán *parataxis*; north *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **found** | past | Sebastián *not said here* | Cali | | 1536 | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cali=Patient | | 3 | **cross** | past | Nikolaus German conquistador | the Llanos Orientales | | 1536 to 1539 | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orientales=Patient | | 4 | **go** | past | Nikolaus German conquistador *not said here* | | | the Cordillera Oriental | | in a search for El | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over oriental=Initial\_Location | 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Colombia/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Colombia/61/) - ↑ back to [Colombia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Colombia/)