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title: In 1988, he returned to the country, visiting Montevideo, Florida, S… — Montevideo · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1988, he returned to the country, visiting Montevideo, Florida, Salto and Melo. Who acts: Pope. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Montevideo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Montevideo, sentence 116

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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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In 1988, he returned to the country, visiting Montevideo, Florida, Salto and Melo.

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**Who acts:** Pope · **What happens:** return, visit · **To what, where:** 1988, Montevideo

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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 (Pope), 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:116
# text = In 1988, he returned to the country, visiting Montevideo, Florida, Salto and Melo.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1988	1988	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	Montevideo	montevideo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Salto	Salto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Melo	Melo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Pope |  |  | 1988 |  | to the country *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result |
| 2 | **visit** | gerund | Pope *not said here* | Montevideo |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent montevideo=Co-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, «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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