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title: Construction began in 1926 and it was inaugurated in 1964. — Montevideo · tree and pragmatics
description: Construction began in 1926 and it was inaugurated in 1964. Who acts: Construction. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Montevideo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Montevideo, sentence 445

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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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Construction began in 1926 and it was inaugurated in 1964.

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**Who acts:** Construction · **What happens:** begin, inaugurate · **To what, where:** 1926, building, 1964

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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 (Construction), 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:445
# text = Construction began in 1926 and it was inaugurated in 1964.
1	Construction	Construction	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1926	1926	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	inaugurated	inaugurate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1964	1964	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Construction |  |  | 1926 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **inaugurate** | past · passive |  | building |  | 1964 |  |  | 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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