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title: The 1910s saw the construction of Montevideo's Rambla; strikes by tr… — Montevideo · tree and pragmatics
description: The 1910s saw the construction of Montevideo's Rambla; strikes by tram workers, bakers and port workers; the inauguration of electric trams; the creation of the Municipal Intendencias; and the inauguration of the new port. Who acts: 1910s, tram workers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Montevideo» with it
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# Montevideo, sentence 97

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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 1910s saw the construction of Montevideo's Rambla; strikes by tram workers, bakers and port workers; the inauguration of electric trams; the creation of the Municipal Intendencias; and the inauguration of the new port.

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**Who acts:** 1910s, tram workers · **What happens:** see, construct, strike, inaugurate, create · **To what, where:** construction, Rambla, electric trams, Municipal, new port

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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 (1910s, tram workers), 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:97
# text = The 1910s saw the construction of Montevideo's Rambla; strikes by tram workers, bakers and port workers; the inauguration of electric trams; the creation of the Municipal Intendencias; and the inauguration of the new port.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	1910s	1910	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Montevideo	Montevideo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	Rambla	Rambla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	strikes	strike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	tram	tram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bakers	baker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	inauguration	inauguration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	trams	tram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	creation	creation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Municipal	Municipal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	Intendencias	Intendencias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	inauguration	inauguration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the 1910s | the construction of Montevideo's Rambla |  |  |  | strikes by tram workers and bakers and port workers *obl*; the inauguration of electric trams and the creation of the Municipal *parataxis* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer construction=Stimulus |
| 2 | **construct** |  |  | Montevideo's Rambla |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **strike** |  | tram workers and bakers and port workers |  |  |  |  |  | nom strike «act intransitive»: by=agent |
| 4 | **inaugurate** |  |  | electric trams |  |  |  |  | nom inauguration «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **create** |  |  | the Municipal |  |  |  |  | nom creation «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **inaugurate** |  |  | the new port |  |  |  |  | nom inauguration «act 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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