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title: The renunciation of most of the decorative elements and variegated o… — Venezuela · tree and pragmatics
description: The renunciation of most of the decorative elements and variegated ostentations of fanciful baroque, the impossibility of using expensive materials and the consequent lack of craftsmen, contributed to establish a modest but well-defined physiognomy of the colonial architecture. Who acts: impossibili
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# Venezuela, sentence 654

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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 renunciation of most of the decorative elements and variegated ostentations of fanciful baroque, the impossibility of using expensive materials and the consequent lack of craftsmen, contributed to establish a modest but well-defined physiognomy of the colonial architecture.

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**Who acts:** impossibility · **What happens:** variegate, use, contribute, establish, define, ostentate · **To what, where:** ostentations, expensive materials, modest defined physiognomy, renunciation, fanciful baroque, craftsmen

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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 (impossibility), 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:654
# text = The renunciation of most of the decorative elements and variegated ostentations of fanciful baroque, the impossibility of using expensive materials and the consequent lack of craftsmen, contributed to establish a modest but well-defined physiognomy of the colonial architecture.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	renunciation	renunciation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	decorative	decorative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	variegated	variegate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	ostentations	ostentation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	fanciful	fanciful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	baroque	baroque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	impossibility	impossibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	consequent	consequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	craftsmen	craftsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	contributed	contribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
33	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	defined	define	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
38	physiognomy	physiognomy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **variegate** | past |  | ostentations of fanciful baroque |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | the impossibility *not said here* | expensive materials and the consequent lack of craftsmen |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Patient |
| 3 | **contribute** | participle |  | expensive materials and the consequent lack of craftsmen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **establish** | to-infinitive |  | a modest defined physiognomy of the colonial architecture |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent physiognomy=Patient |
| 5 | **define** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **ostentate** |  |  | fanciful baroque |  |  |  |  | nom ostentation «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **lack** |  |  | craftsmen |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state 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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