--- title: The Picunches had adopted a strategy of halting cultivation and retr… — Santiago · tree and pragmatics description: The Picunches had adopted a strategy of halting cultivation and retreating to more remote locations, which isolated the Spanish and forced them to resort to eating whatever they could find. Who acts: strategy, more remote locations, Picunches. 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The Picunches had adopted a strategy of halting cultivation and retreating to more remote locations, which isolated the Spanish and forced them to resort to eating whatever they could find. **Who acts:** strategy, more remote locations, Picunches · **What happens:** adopt, halt, retreat, isolate, force, resort · **To what, where:** Picunches, cultivation, more remote locations, Spanish, whatever This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Santiago». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strategy, more remote locations, Picunches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Santiago:50 # text = The Picunches had adopted a strategy of halting cultivation and retreating to more remote locations, which isolated the Spanish and forced them to resort to eating whatever they could find. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Picunches picunch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 adopted adopt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 strategy strategy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 halting halt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 9 cultivation cultivation NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 retreating retreat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ _ 14 remote remote ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 locations location NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 isolated isolate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 forced force VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 resort resort VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 to to SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 28 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 obj _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **adopt** | past · perfect · passive | | the Picunches | | | | a strategy *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme strategy=Attribute | | 2 | **halt** | gerund | a strategy *not said here* | cultivation | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector cultivation=Eventuality | | 3 | **retreat** | gerund | a strategy *not said here* | | | more remote locations | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to location=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **isolate** | past | more remote locations | the Spanish | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spanish=Theme | | 5 | **force** | past | more remote locations *not said here* | Picunches *= picunch* | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **resort** | to-infinitive | Picunches *= picunch* *not said here* | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **eat** | gerund | Picunches *= picunch* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **find** | could | Picunches *= picunch* | whatever | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Santiago», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Santiago/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Santiago/51/) - ↑ back to [Santiago](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Santiago/)