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title: Between 1680 and 1683, Portugal founded the city of Colonia do Sacra… — Montevideo · tree and pragmatics
description: Between 1680 and 1683, Portugal founded the city of Colonia do Sacramento in the region across the bay from Buenos Aires. Who acts: Portugal, city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Montevideo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Montevideo, sentence 33

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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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Between 1680 and 1683, Portugal founded the city of Colonia do Sacramento in the region across the bay from Buenos Aires.

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**Who acts:** Portugal, city · **What happens:** found, do · **To what, where:** Sacramento, region

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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 (Portugal, city), 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:33
# text = Between 1680 and 1683, Portugal founded the city of Colonia do Sacramento in the region across the bay from Buenos Aires.
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1680	1680	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	1683	1683	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Colonia	Colonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	Sacramento	Sacramento	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	across	across	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Buenos	Buenos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	Aires	Aires	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past | Portugal |  |  |  |  | between 1680 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the city of Colonia | Sacramento |  | the region across the bay from Buenos |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sacramento=Eventuality |

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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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