---
title: In 1837, civil marriage was recognized, and in 1861, the state took… — Uruguay · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1837, civil marriage was recognized, and in 1861, the state took over the running of public cemeteries. Who acts: state, public cemeteries. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uruguay» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Uruguay/374/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Uruguay](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Uruguay/) / 374

# Uruguay, sentence 374

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In 1837, civil marriage was recognized, and in 1861, the state took over the running of public cemeteries.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** state, public cemeteries · **What happens:** recognize, take over, run · **To what, where:** civil marriage, 1837, running, 1861

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (state, public cemeteries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:374
# text = In 1837, civil marriage was recognized, and in 1861, the state took over the running of public cemeteries.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1837	1837	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1861	1861	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	running	running	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cemeteries	cemetery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognize** | past · passive |  | civil marriage |  | 1837 |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take over** | past | the state | the running of public cemeteries |  | 1861 |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent running=Theme |
| 3 | **run** |  | public cemeteries |  |  |  |  |  | nom running «act intransitive»: of=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 373](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Uruguay/373/)
- next →: [sentence 375](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Uruguay/375/)
- ↑ back to [Uruguay](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Uruguay/)