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title: Through a long process of indoctrination and practices among the pre… — Lima · tree and pragmatics
description: Through a long process of indoctrination and practices among the pre-Columbian settlers, the Spanish friars made faith their most important task. Who acts: friars. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lima» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lima, sentence 388

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From Wikipedia, [«Lima»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima), 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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Through a long process of indoctrination and practices among the pre-Columbian settlers, the Spanish friars made faith their most important task.

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**Who acts:** friars · **What happens:** practice, make, process, task · **To what, where:** long process, indoctrination

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lima». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friars), 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:Lima:388
# text = Through a long process of indoctrination and practices among the pre-Columbian settlers, the Spanish friars made faith their most important task.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	indoctrination	indoctrination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	practices	practice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	pre-Columbian	pre-columbian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	friars	friar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practice** | present |  |  |  | a long process of indoctrination |  | among the pre-Columbian settlers and the Spanish friars  friars's important task and made faith | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **process** |  |  | indoctrination |  |  |  |  | nom process «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **task** |  | friars *= friar* |  |  |  |  |  | nom task «act transitive»: poss=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, «Lima», 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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