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title: The Liberal rule started a period of great political instability. — Paraguay · tree and pragmatics
description: The Liberal rule started a period of great political instability. Who acts: Liberal rule. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paraguay» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paraguay, sentence 100

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From Wikipedia, [«Paraguay»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay), 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 Liberal rule started a period of great political instability.

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**Who acts:** Liberal rule · **What happens:** start · **To what, where:** period

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Paraguay». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Liberal rule), 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:Paraguay:100
# text = The Liberal rule started a period of great political instability.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Liberal	liberal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	instability	instability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | the Liberal rule | a period of great political instability |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Eventuality |

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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, «Paraguay», 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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