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title: In Montevideo, as throughout the Rio de Plata region, the most popul… — Montevideo · tree and pragmatics
description: In Montevideo, as throughout the Rio de Plata region, the most popular forms of music are tango, milonga and vals criollo. Who acts: popular forms. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Montevideo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Montevideo, sentence 454

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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 Montevideo, as throughout the Rio de Plata region, the most popular forms of music are tango, milonga and vals criollo.

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**Who acts:** popular forms · **What happens:** be, form · **To what, where:** tango, Montevideo, music

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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 (popular forms), 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:454
# text = In Montevideo, as throughout the Rio de Plata region, the most popular forms of music are tango, milonga and vals criollo.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Montevideo	montevideo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	Plata	Plata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	tango	tango	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	milonga	milonga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	vals	val	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	criollo	criollo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the popular forms of music | tango and milonga and vals and criollo |  |  |  | milonga *conj*; vals *conj*; criollo *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | music |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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