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title: The Bay of Montevideo forms a natural harbor, the nation's largest a… — Montevideo · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bay of Montevideo forms a natural harbor, the nation's largest and one of the largest in the Southern Cone, and the finest natural port in the region, functioning as a crucial component of the Uruguayan economy and foreign trade. Who acts: Bay. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Montevideo» with its dep
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# Montevideo, sentence 124

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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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The Bay of Montevideo forms a natural harbor, the nation's largest and one of the largest in the Southern Cone, and the finest natural port in the region, functioning as a crucial component of the Uruguayan economy and foreign trade.

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**Who acts:** Bay · **What happens:** form, compose · **To what, where:** natural harbor, Uruguayan economy

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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 (Bay), 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:124
# text = The Bay of Montevideo forms a natural harbor, the nation's largest and one of the largest in the Southern Cone, and the finest natural port in the region, functioning as a crucial component of the Uruguayan economy and foreign trade.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Montevideo	montevideo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	harbor	harbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Southern	Southern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Cone	Cone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
27	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	functioning	functioning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	parataxis	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	crucial	crucial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	component	component	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Uruguayan	Uruguayan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | the Bay of Montevideo | a natural harbor |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location harbor=Theme |
| 2 | **compose** |  |  | the Uruguayan economy |  |  |  |  | nom component «cognition 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, «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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