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title: In 1830, the country enacted its constitution and was formally estab… — Uruguay · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1830, the country enacted its constitution and was formally established as an independent state. Who acts: country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uruguay» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uruguay, sentence 12

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From Wikipedia, [«Uruguay»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay), 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 1830, the country enacted its constitution and was formally established as an independent state.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** enact, establish, constitute · **To what, where:** constitution, 1830

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Uruguay». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country), 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:Uruguay:12
# text = In 1830, the country enacted its constitution and was formally established as an independent state.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1830	1830	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	enacted	enact	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enact** | past | the country | country's constitution |  | 1830 |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | past · passive | the country *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a independent state; formally *property* | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP» |
| 3 | **constitute** |  | country |  |  |  |  |  | nom constitution «communication transitive»: poss=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, «Uruguay», 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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