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title: The largest basin in this area is the extensive Orinoco Basin whose… — Venezuela · tree and pragmatics
description: The largest basin in this area is the extensive Orinoco Basin whose surface area, close to one million km2, is greater than that of the whole of Venezuela, although it has a presence of 65% in the country. Who acts: largest basin, area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Venezuela» with its dependency tree 
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# Venezuela, sentence 302

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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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The largest basin in this area is the extensive Orinoco Basin whose surface area, close to one million km2, is greater than that of the whole of Venezuela, although it has a presence of 65% in the country.

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**Who acts:** largest basin, area · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** surface area, presence

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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 (largest basin, area), 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:302
# text = The largest basin in this area is the extensive Orinoco Basin whose surface area, close to one million km2, is greater than that of the whole of Venezuela, although it has a presence of 65% in the country.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Orinoco	Orinoco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Basin	Basin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	_
19	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
20	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	parataxis	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Venezuela	Venezuela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	65	65	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the largest basin in this area | surface area |  |  |  | the extensive Orinoco Basin *nsubj*; whose *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | than that of the whole Venezuela; great *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | area | a presence |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=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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