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title: Originally, they were Vaudois who become Waldensians, giving their n… — Uruguay · tree and pragmatics
description: Originally, they were Vaudois who become Waldensians, giving their name to the city Colonia Valdense, which translated from the Spanish to mean "Waldensian Colony". Who acts: speakers, Colonia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uruguay» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uruguay, sentence 363

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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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Originally, they were Vaudois who become Waldensians, giving their name to the city Colonia Valdense, which translated from the Spanish to mean "Waldensian Colony".

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**Who acts:** speakers, Colonia · **What happens:** be, become, give, translate, mean, name · **To what, where:** Vaudois, name, city, Waldensian

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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 (speakers, Colonia), 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:363
# text = Originally, they were Vaudois who become Waldensians, giving their name to the city Colonia Valdense, which translated from the Spanish to mean "Waldensian Colony".
1	Originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Vaudois	Vaudois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Waldensians	Waldensian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	Colonia	Colonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Valdense	Valdense	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	translated	translate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Waldensian	Waldensian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	Colony	Colony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | speakers *= speaker* | Vaudois |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; Waldensians *xcomp*; originally *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | gerund |  | speakers's name | the city |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to city=Recipient |
| 4 | **translate** | past | Colonia |  |  |  |  | spanish *property* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **mean** | to-infinitive | Colonia *not said here* | Waldensian |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waldensian=Topic |
| 6 | **name** |  | speakers *= speaker* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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