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title: The National University of San Marcos, founded on 12 May 1551, durin… — Peru · tree and pragmatics
description: The National University of San Marcos, founded on 12 May 1551, during the Viceroyalty of Peru, is the first officially established and the oldest continuously functioning university in the Americas. Who acts: National University. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Peru» with its dependency tree and pragmati
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# Peru, sentence 507

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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 National University of San Marcos, founded on 12 May 1551, during the Viceroyalty of Peru, is the first officially established and the oldest continuously functioning university in the Americas.

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**Who acts:** National University · **What happens:** found, be, establish · **To what, where:** National University

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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 (National University), 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:507
# text = The National University of San Marcos, founded on 12 May 1551, during the Viceroyalty of Peru, is the first officially established and the oldest continuously functioning university in the Americas.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Marcos	Marcos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl:agent	_	_
12	1551	1551	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	during	during	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Viceroyalty	viceroyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Peru	Peru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
23	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
28	continuously	continuously	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	functioning	functioning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	university	university	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | participle |  | the National University of San *not said here* |  |  | may |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the National University of San |  |  |  |  | the oldest functioning university in the Americas *conj*; first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **establish** | participle | the National University of San *not said here* |  |  |  |  | officially *property* | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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