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title: Economic shocks in the 1980s and 1990s led to major political crises… — Venezuela · tree and pragmatics
description: Economic shocks in the 1980s and 1990s led to major political crises and widespread social unrest, including the deadly Caracazo riots of 1989, two attempted coups in 1992, and the impeachment of a president for embezzlement of public funds charges in 1993. Who acts: Economic shocks. A sentence of W
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# Venezuela, sentence 13

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From Wikipedia, [«Venezuela»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela), 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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Economic shocks in the 1980s and 1990s led to major political crises and widespread social unrest, including the deadly Caracazo riots of 1989, two attempted coups in 1992, and the impeachment of a president for embezzlement of public funds charges in 1993.

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**Who acts:** Economic shocks · **What happens:** lead, attempt, impeach, embezzle · **To what, where:** major political crises, 1993, president, funds charges

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Venezuela». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Economic shocks), 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:Venezuela:13
# text = Economic shocks in the 1980s and 1990s led to major political crises and widespread social unrest, including the deadly Caracazo riots of 1989, two attempted coups in 1992, and the impeachment of a president for embezzlement of public funds charges in 1993.
1	Economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	shocks	shock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	1980s	1980s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	crises	crisis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	unrest	unrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	including	including	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	Caracazo	Caracazo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	riots	riot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	1989	1989	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	coups	coup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	1992	1992	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	impeachment	impeachment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	embezzlement	embezzlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	funds	fund	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	compound	_	_
43	charges	charge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	1993	1993	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | Economic shocks in the 1980s and 1990s | major political crises and widespread social unrest and the deadly Caracazo riots of 1989 and two attempted coups in 1992 |  | 1993 |  | the impeachment of a president for embezzlement of funds charges *obl* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crisis=Theme in 1993=Destination |
| 2 | **attempt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **impeach** |  |  | a president |  |  |  | for embezzlement of funds charges | nom impeachment «communication transitive»: of=patient for=obl |
| 4 | **embezzle** |  |  | funds charges |  |  |  |  | nom embezzlement «act 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, «Venezuela», 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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