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title: A wave of bands appeared in Montevideo, including Los Shakers, Los I… — Uruguay · tree and pragmatics
description: A wave of bands appeared in Montevideo, including Los Shakers, Los Iracundos, Los Moonlights, and Los Malditos, of which all became major figures in the so-called Uruguayan Invasion of Argentina. Who acts: wave, Los. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uruguay» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uruguay, sentence 409

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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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A wave of bands appeared in Montevideo, including Los Shakers, Los Iracundos, Los Moonlights, and Los Malditos, of which all became major figures in the so-called Uruguayan Invasion of Argentina.

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**Who acts:** wave, Los · **What happens:** appear, become, call, wave · **To what, where:** Montevideo, major figures, called Uruguayan Invasion, bands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wave, Los), 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:409
# text = A wave of bands appeared in Montevideo, including Los Shakers, Los Iracundos, Los Moonlights, and Los Malditos, of which all became major figures in the so-called Uruguayan Invasion of Argentina.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Montevideo	montevideo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	including	including	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Los	Los	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Shakers	Shaker	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Los	Los	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	Iracundos	Iracundos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Los	Los	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Moonlights	moonlight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	Los	Los	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	Malditos	Malditos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj	_	_
26	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
34	Uruguayan	Uruguayan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Invasion	Invasion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Argentina	Argentina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | a wave of bands |  |  | Montevideo |  | including Los Shakers and Los Moonlights | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in montevideo=Location |
| 2 | **become** | past | Los | major figures |  |  |  | in the called Uruguayan Invasion of Argentina *result*; which *obl* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in invasion=Result |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wave** |  |  | bands |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=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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