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title: Commercial ties between both countries have expanded with the signin… — Uruguay · tree and pragmatics
description: Commercial ties between both countries have expanded with the signing of a bilateral investment treaty in 2004 and a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement in January 2007. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uruguay» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uruguay, sentence 236

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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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Commercial ties between both countries have expanded with the signing of a bilateral investment treaty in 2004 and a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement in January 2007.

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**What happens:** expand, sign · **To what, where:** Commercial ties, bilateral investment treaty

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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: 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:236
# text = Commercial ties between both countries have expanded with the signing of a bilateral investment treaty in 2004 and a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement in January 2007.
1	Commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	expanded	expand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	signing	signing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	bilateral	bilateral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	treaty	treaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	Trade	Trade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Investment	Investment	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	Framework	Framework	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	Agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expand** | present · perfect · passive |  | Commercial ties between both countries |  |  |  | with the signing of a bilateral investment treaty in 2004 and a Trade Agreement in January  2007 | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with signing=Instrument |
| 2 | **sign** |  |  | a bilateral investment treaty in 2004 |  |  |  |  | nom signing «communication transitive»: of=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, «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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