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title: In 1811, José Gervasio Artigas, who became Uruguay's national hero,… — Uruguay · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1811, José Gervasio Artigas, who became Uruguay's national hero, launched a successful revolt against the Spanish authorities, defeating them on 18 May at the Battle of Las Piedras. Who acts: José. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uruguay» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uruguay, sentence 47

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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 1811, José Gervasio Artigas, who became Uruguay's national hero, launched a successful revolt against the Spanish authorities, defeating them on 18 May at the Battle of Las Piedras.

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**Who acts:** José · **What happens:** become, launch, defeat · **To what, where:** national hero, successful revolt, 1811, authorities, 18

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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 (José), 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:47
# text = In 1811, José Gervasio Artigas, who became Uruguay's national hero, launched a successful revolt against the Spanish authorities, defeating them on 18 May at the Battle of Las Piedras.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1811	1811	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	José	José	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
5	Gervasio	Gervasio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	Artigas	Artigas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	Uruguay	Uruguay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	revolt	revolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	defeating	defeat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
28	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:unmarked	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Las	Las	PROPN	NNP	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	Piedras	Piedras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | José | Uruguay's national hero |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **launch** | past | José | a successful revolt |  | 1811 |  | against the Spanish authorities | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent revolt=Theme in 1811=Destination |
| 3 | **defeat** | gerund | José *not said here* | authorities *= authority* |  | 18  May |  | at the Battle of Las | tree rules |

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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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