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title: The previously independent localities of the Villa del Cerro and La… — Montevideo · tree and pragmatics
description: The previously independent localities of the Villa del Cerro and La Teja were annexed to Montevideo, becoming two of its neighborhoods. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Montevideo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Montevideo, sentence 99

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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 previously independent localities of the Villa del Cerro and La Teja were annexed to Montevideo, becoming two of its neighborhoods.

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**What happens:** annex, become · **To what, where:** independent localities

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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: 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:99
# text = The previously independent localities of the Villa del Cerro and La Teja were annexed to Montevideo, becoming two of its neighborhoods.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	localities	locality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Villa	Villa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	del	Del	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Cerro	Cerro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	Teja	Teja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	annexed	annex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Montevideo	montevideo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	xcomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	neighborhoods	neighborhood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **annex** | past · passive |  | the independent localities of the Villa del Cerro and La |  |  |  | to Montevideo | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | two of gulf's neighborhoods *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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