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title: A transition period (1886–90) followed, during which politicians beg… — Uruguay · tree and pragmatics
description: A transition period (1886–90) followed, during which politicians began recovering lost ground, and some civilian participation in government occurred. Who acts: transition period, politicians, civilian participation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uruguay» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uruguay, sentence 95

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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 transition period (1886–90) followed, during which politicians began recovering lost ground, and some civilian participation in government occurred.

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**Who acts:** transition period, politicians, civilian participation · **What happens:** follow, begin, recover, lose, occur · **To what, where:** lost ground

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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 (transition period, politicians, civilian participation), 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:95
# text = A transition period (1886–90) followed, during which politicians began recovering lost ground, and some civilian participation in government occurred.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	transition	transition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	1886	1886	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
9	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
13	politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	recovering	recover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	civilian	civilian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	participation	participation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | a transition period |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | politicians |  |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **recover** | gerund | politicians *not said here* | lost ground |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme |
| 4 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **occur** | past | some civilian participation in government |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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