---
title: In 1816, Portugal invaded the recently liberated territory and in 18… — Montevideo · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1816, Portugal invaded the recently liberated territory and in 1821, it was annexed to the Banda Oriental of Brazil. Who acts: Portugal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Montevideo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Montevideo/53/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Montevideo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Montevideo/) / 53

# Montevideo, sentence 53

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In 1816, Portugal invaded the recently liberated territory and in 1821, it was annexed to the Banda Oriental of Brazil.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Portugal · **What happens:** invade, liberate, annex · **To what, where:** 1816, territory

<!-- .vabout -->
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:53
# text = In 1816, Portugal invaded the recently liberated territory and in 1821, it was annexed to the Banda Oriental of Brazil.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1816	1816	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	invaded	invade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	liberated	liberate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1821	1821	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	annexed	annex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Banda	Banda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Oriental	Oriental	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invade** | past | Portugal |  |  | 1816 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **liberate** | past | Portugal *not said here* | territory |  |  |  | recently *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Theme |
| 3 | **annex** | past · passive |  | territory |  |  |  | to the Banda Oriental of Brazil | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Montevideo/52/)
- next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Montevideo/54/)
- ↑ back to [Montevideo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Montevideo/)