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title: Montevideo (/ˌmɒntɪvɪˈdeɪoʊ/, /USalso-'vɪdioʊ/; monteβiˈðeo), is the… — Montevideo · tree and pragmatics
description: Montevideo (/ˌmɒntɪvɪˈdeɪoʊ/, /USalso-'vɪdioʊ/; monteβiˈðeo), is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. Who acts: Montevideo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Montevideo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Montevideo, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Montevideo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montevideo), 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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Montevideo (/ˌmɒntɪvɪˈdeɪoʊ/, /USalso-'vɪdioʊ/; monteβiˈðeo), is the capital and largest city of Uruguay.

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**Who acts:** Montevideo · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** capital

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Montevideo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Montevideo), 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:Montevideo:1
# text = Montevideo (/ˌmɒntɪvɪˈdeɪoʊ/, /USalso-'vɪdioʊ/; monteβiˈðeo), is the capital and largest city of Uruguay.
1	Montevideo	montevideo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ˌmɒntɪvɪˈdeɪoʊ	ˌmɒntɪvɪˈdeɪoʊ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	/	/	SYM	,	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	/	/	SYM	HYPH	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	USalso	USalso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	vɪdioʊ	vɪdioʊ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	monteβiˈðeo	monteβiˈðeo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Uruguay	Uruguay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Montevideo and ˌmɒntɪvɪˈdeɪoʊ / USalso | the capital and largest city of Uruguay |  |  |  | largest city of Uruguay *conj* | tree rules |

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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, «Montevideo», 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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