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title: Since its independence, the country has been known as "República Ori… — Uruguay · tree and pragmatics
description: Since its independence, the country has been known as "República Oriental del Uruguay", which literally translates to "Republic East of the Uruguay [River]". Who acts: República. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uruguay» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uruguay, sentence 29

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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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Since its independence, the country has been known as "República Oriental del Uruguay", which literally translates to "Republic East of the Uruguay \[River\]".

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**Who acts:** República · **What happens:** know, translate · **To what, where:** country, Republic East

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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 (República), 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:29
# text = Since its independence, the country has been known as "República Oriental del Uruguay", which literally translates to "Republic East of the Uruguay [River]".
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	República	República	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	Oriental	Oriental	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	del	Del	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Uruguay	Uruguay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	translates	translate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Uruguay	Uruguay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · perfect · passive |  | the country |  |  | since river's independence | as República | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as república=Attribute |
| 2 | **translate** | present | República | Republic East of the Uruguay |  |  |  | literally *property* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent east=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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