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title: During this period, rail lines connected Santiago to Valparaíso and… — Santiago · tree and pragmatics
description: During this period, rail lines connected Santiago to Valparaíso and regions in northern and southern Chile. Who acts: rail lines. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Santiago» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Santiago, sentence 94

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From Wikipedia, [«Santiago»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago), 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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During this period, rail lines connected Santiago to Valparaíso and regions in northern and southern Chile.

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**Who acts:** rail lines · **What happens:** connect · **To what, where:** Santiago, Valparaíso, northern Chile

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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 (rail lines), 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:Santiago:94
# text = During this period, rail lines connected Santiago to Valparaíso and regions in northern and southern Chile.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	connected	connect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Santiago	Santiago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Valparaíso	Valparaíso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	Chile	Chile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connect** | past | rail lines | Santiago | Valparaíso and regions | northern Chile | during this period |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent santiago=Patient to valparaíso=Co-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, «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.

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