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title: In the 16th century, the nautical science in Spain reached a great d… — Colombia · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 16th century, the nautical science in Spain reached a great development thanks to numerous scientific figures of the Casa de Contratación and nautical science was an essential pillar of the Iberian expansion. Who acts: nautical science, great development thanks. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Col
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# Colombia, sentence 66

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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 the 16th century, the nautical science in Spain reached a great development thanks to numerous scientific figures of the Casa de Contratación and nautical science was an essential pillar of the Iberian expansion.

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**Who acts:** nautical science, great development thanks · **What happens:** reach, be, figure · **To what, where:** essential pillar, Casa Contratación

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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 (nautical science, great development thanks), 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:66
# text = In the 16th century, the nautical science in Spain reached a great development thanks to numerous scientific figures of the Casa de Contratación and nautical science was an essential pillar of the Iberian expansion.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	16th	16th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	nautical	nautical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Casa	Casa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	Contratación	Contratación	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	nautical	nautical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	essential	essential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Iberian	iberian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	expansion	expansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the nautical science in Spain |  |  |  | century |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a great development thanks to numerous scientific figures of the Casa Contratación and nautical science | a essential pillar |  |  |  | of the Iberian expansion | tree rules |
| 3 | **figure** |  |  | the Casa Contratación and nautical science |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication 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, «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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