Belize, sentence 120
From Wikipedia, «Belize», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Belize's rugged geography has also made the country's coastline and jungle attractive to drug smugglers, who use the country as a gateway into Mexico.
Who acts: smugglers · What happens: make, drug, use · To what, where: rugged geography, smugglers, country, Mexico
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Belize». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smugglers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belize | belize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 geography | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Belize | case |
| 3 | rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 geography | amod |
| 4 | geography | geography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 made | advmod |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coastline | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 country | case |
| 11 | coastline | coastline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 jungle | cc |
| 13 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coastline | conj |
| 14 | attractive | attractive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 coastline | amod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 drug | mark |
| 16 | drug | drug | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 attractive | advcl |
| 17 | smugglers | smuggler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 drug | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 use | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 use | nsubj |
| 20 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 smugglers | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 country | det |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 use | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 gateway | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 gateway | det |
| 25 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 use | obl |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 Mexico | case |
| 27 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 use | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect · passive | Belize's rugged geography | the country's coastline and jungle obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary coastline=Product | ||||
| 2 | drug | to-infinitive | smugglers | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent smuggler=Destination | |||||
| 3 | use | present | smugglers | the country | Mexico | as a gateway | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent country=Duration as gateway=Attribute |
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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