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title: By the 18th century, declining silver production and economic divers… — Peru · tree and pragmatics
description: By the 18th century, declining silver production and economic diversification greatly diminished royal income. Who acts: 18th century. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Peru» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Peru, sentence 75

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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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By the 18th century, declining silver production and economic diversification greatly diminished royal income.

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**Who acts:** 18th century · **What happens:** decline, diminish · **To what, where:** silver production, royal income

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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 (18th century), 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:75
# text = By the 18th century, declining silver production and economic diversification greatly diminished royal income.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	18th	18th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	declining	decline	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	diversification	diversification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	diminished	diminish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decline** | gerund | the 18th century *not said here* | silver production and economic diversification |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent production=Theme |
| 2 | **diminish** | past |  | royal income |  |  | century | greatly *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer income=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, «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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