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title: The building of the National Library of Uruguay (Biblioteca Pública… — Montevideo · tree and pragmatics
description: The building of the National Library of Uruguay (Biblioteca Pública de Uruguay) was designed by Luis Crespi in the Neoclassical style and occupies an area of 4000 sqm. Who acts: Luis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Montevideo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Montevideo, sentence 444

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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 building of the National Library of Uruguay (Biblioteca Pública de Uruguay) was designed by Luis Crespi in the Neoclassical style and occupies an area of 4000 sqm.

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**Who acts:** Luis · **What happens:** design, occupy · **To what, where:** building, Neoclassical style, area

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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 (Luis), 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:444
# text = The building of the National Library of Uruguay (Biblioteca Pública de Uruguay) was designed by Luis Crespi in the Neoclassical style and occupies an area of 4000 sqm.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Library	Library	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Uruguay	Uruguay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Biblioteca	Biblioteca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Pública	Pública	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	Uruguay	Uruguay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Luis	Luis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl:agent	_	_
19	Crespi	Crespi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Neoclassical	neoclassical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	occupies	occupy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	4000	4000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	sqm	sqm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **design** | past · passive | Luis | the building of the National Library of Uruguay |  | the Neoclassical style |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
| 2 | **occupy** | present | Luis *not said here* | a area of 4000 sqm |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus area=Experiencer |

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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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