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title: In this endeavor, the church came to play an important role in the a… — Peru · tree and pragmatics
description: In this endeavor, the church came to play an important role in the acculturation of the Natives, drawing them into the cultural orbit of the Spanish settlers. Who acts: church, Natives. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Peru» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Peru, sentence 74

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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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In this endeavor, the church came to play an important role in the acculturation of the Natives, drawing them into the cultural orbit of the Spanish settlers.

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**Who acts:** church, Natives · **What happens:** come, play, draw, acculturate · **To what, where:** endeavor, important role, acculturation, churches, cultural orbit

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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 (church, Natives), 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:74
# text = In this endeavor, the church came to play an important role in the acculturation of the Natives, drawing them into the cultural orbit of the Spanish settlers.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	endeavor	endeavor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	acculturation	acculturation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Natives	Native	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	orbit	orbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the church |  |  | this endeavor |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | the church *not said here* | a important role |  | the acculturation of the Natives |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | gerund | the church *not said here* | churches *= church* |  |  |  | into the cultural orbit of the Spanish settlers *result* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Patient into orbit=Result |
| 4 | **acculturate** |  | the Natives |  |  |  |  |  | nom acculturation «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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