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title: In 1982, Argentina invaded the British territories of South Georgia… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1982, Argentina invaded the British territories of South Georgia and the Falkland Islands, leading to the 10-week Falklands War in which Argentine forces were defeated. Who acts: Argentina. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Kingdom, sentence 137

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From Wikipedia, [«United Kingdom»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom), 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 1982, Argentina invaded the British territories of South Georgia and the Falkland Islands, leading to the 10-week Falklands War in which Argentine forces were defeated.

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**Who acts:** Argentina · **What happens:** invade, lead, defeat · **To what, where:** British territories, 1982, Argentine forces

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United Kingdom». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Argentina), 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:United_Kingdom:137
# text = In 1982, Argentina invaded the British territories of South Georgia and the Falkland Islands, leading to the 10-week Falklands War in which Argentine forces were defeated.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1982	1982	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Argentina	Argentina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	invaded	invade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Falkland	Falkland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	Falklands	Falklands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	28	det	_	_
27	Argentine	Argentine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invade** | past | Argentina | the British territories of South Georgia and the Falkland Islands |  | 1982 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund | Argentina *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the week Falklands War | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to war=Patient |
| 3 | **defeat** | past · passive |  | which Argentine forces |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «United Kingdom», 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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