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title: The major internal river is the Río Negro ("Black River"), dammed in… — Uruguay · tree and pragmatics
description: The major internal river is the Río Negro ("Black River"), dammed in 1945, resulting in the formation of the artificial Rincón del Bonete Lake in the heart of Uruguay. Who acts: major internal river, Río Negro. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uruguay» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uruguay, sentence 152

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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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The major internal river is the Río Negro ("Black River"), dammed in 1945, resulting in the formation of the artificial Rincón del Bonete Lake in the heart of Uruguay.

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**Who acts:** major internal river, Río Negro · **What happens:** be, dam, result · **To what, where:** Río Negro, 1945, formation

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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 (major internal river, Río Negro), 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:152
# text = The major internal river is the Río Negro ("Black River"), dammed in 1945, resulting in the formation of the artificial Rincón del Bonete Lake in the heart of Uruguay.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Río	Río	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Negro	Negro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	dammed	dam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1945	1945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	resulting	result	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	formation	formation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
26	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
27	Rincón	Rincón	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	del	Del	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Bonete	Bonete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Uruguay	Uruguay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the major internal river | the Río Negro |  |  |  | Black River *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dam** | participle |  | the Río Negro *not said here* |  | 1945 |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **result** | gerund | the Río Negro *not said here* |  |  | the formation of the artificial Bonete Lake |  | in the heart of Uruguay | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in formation=Location |

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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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