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title: In absence of von Hutten from the capital of the province, the crown… — Venezuela · tree and pragmatics
description: In absence of von Hutten from the capital of the province, the crown of Spain claimed the right to appoint a governor. Who acts: crown. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Venezuela» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Venezuela, sentence 60

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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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In absence of von Hutten from the capital of the province, the crown of Spain claimed the right to appoint a governor.

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**Who acts:** crown · **What happens:** claim, appoint, absent, crown · **To what, where:** right, absence, governor, von, capital, Spain

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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 (crown), 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:60
# text = In absence of von Hutten from the capital of the province, the crown of Spain claimed the right to appoint a governor.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	2	nmod	_	_
5	Hutten	Hutten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	appoint	appoint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | the crown of Spain | the right |  | absence of von from the capital of the province |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent right=Topic |
| 2 | **appoint** | to-infinitive | the crown of Spain *not said here* | a governor |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent governor=Theme |
| 3 | **absent** |  |  | von |  | the capital of the province |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient from=place |
| 4 | **crown** |  |  | Spain |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication 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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