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title: In 1603, the Spanish began introducing cattle, which became a source… — Uruguay · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1603, the Spanish began introducing cattle, which became a source of regional wealth. Who acts: Spanish, cattle. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uruguay» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uruguay, sentence 39

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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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In 1603, the Spanish began introducing cattle, which became a source of regional wealth.

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**Who acts:** Spanish, cattle · **What happens:** begin, introduce, become · **To what, where:** 1603, cattle, source

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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 (Spanish, cattle), 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:39
# text = In 1603, the Spanish began introducing cattle, which became a source of regional wealth.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1603	1603	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	introducing	introduce	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the Spanish |  |  | 1603 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **introduce** | gerund | the Spanish *not said here* | cattle |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | past | cattle | a source of regional wealth |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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