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title: The Uruguayan Armed Forces are constitutionally subordinate to the p… — Uruguay · tree and pragmatics
description: The Uruguayan Armed Forces are constitutionally subordinate to the president of the Republic, through the minister of defence. Who acts: Uruguayan Armed Forces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uruguay» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uruguay, sentence 240

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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 Uruguayan Armed Forces are constitutionally subordinate to the president of the Republic, through the minister of defence.

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**Who acts:** Uruguayan Armed Forces · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** minister

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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 (Uruguayan Armed Forces), 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:240
# text = The Uruguayan Armed Forces are constitutionally subordinate to the president of the Republic, through the minister of defence.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Uruguayan	Uruguayan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	constitutionally	constitutionally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	subordinate	subordinate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Uruguayan Armed Forces |  |  | the minister of defence |  | to the president of the Republic; constitutionally, subordinate *property* | 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, «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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