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title: The first significant oilfield was in the Piura region in Negritos,… — Peru · tree and pragmatics
description: The first significant oilfield was in the Piura region in Negritos, and was managed by the International Petroleum Company, a branch of Standard Oil of New Jersey; the second major oil producer was Lobitos Oil Co., located in Lobitos. Who acts: first significant oilfield, International Petroleum Com
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# Peru, sentence 372

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From Wikipedia, [«Peru»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru), 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 first significant oilfield was in the Piura region in Negritos, and was managed by the International Petroleum Company, a branch of Standard Oil of New Jersey; the second major oil producer was Lobitos Oil Co., located in Lobitos.

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**Who acts:** first significant oilfield, International Petroleum Company, second major oil producer · **What happens:** be, manage, locate · **To what, where:** Piura region, Lobitos Oil Co., Lobitos

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Peru». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first significant oilfield, International Petroleum Company, second major oil producer), 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:Peru:372
# text = The first significant oilfield was in the Piura region in Negritos, and was managed by the International Petroleum Company, a branch of Standard Oil of New Jersey; the second major oil producer was Lobitos Oil Co., located in Lobitos.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	oilfield	oilfield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Piura	Piura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Negritos	Negritos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	managed	manage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	International	International	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Petroleum	Petroleum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Standard	Standard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Oil	Oil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Jersey	Jersey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	amod	_	_
33	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	producer	producer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	Lobitos	Lobitos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
38	Oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Co.	co.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Lobitos	Lobitos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the first significant oilfield |  |  | the Piura region |  | in Negritos | tree rules |
| 2 | **manage** | past · passive | the International Petroleum Company |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the second major oil producer | Lobitos Oil Co. |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **locate** | participle |  | Lobitos Oil Co. *not said here* |  | Lobitos |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «Peru», 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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