Belize, sentence 26
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.
It has been proposed that Delgado's "Balis" was actually the Mayan word belix (or beliz), meaning "muddy water", although no such Mayan word actually exists.
Who acts: Balis, such Mayan word · What happens: propose, be, mean, exist · To what, where: name, word belix, muddy water
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 (Balis, such Mayan word), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 proposed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 proposed | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 proposed | aux:pass |
| 4 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 belix | mark |
| 6 | Delgado | Delgado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Balis | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Delgado | case |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Balis | punct |
| 9 | Balis | Balis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 belix | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Balis | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 belix | cop |
| 12 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 16 belix | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 word | det |
| 14 | Mayan | mayan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 word | amod |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 belix | compound |
| 16 | belix | belix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proposed | xcomp |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 beliz | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 beliz | cc |
| 19 | beliz | beliz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 belix | appos |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 beliz | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 meaning | punct |
| 22 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 proposed | advcl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 water | punct |
| 24 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 water | amod |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 meaning | obj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 water | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 exists | punct |
| 28 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 34 exists | mark |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 word | det |
| 30 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 word | amod |
| 31 | Mayan | mayan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 word | amod |
| 32 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 exists | nsubj |
| 33 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 34 exists | advmod |
| 34 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 proposed | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | present · perfect · passive | name | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Delgado's Balis | word belix | beliz appos; actually property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | mean | gerund | muddy water | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic | |||||
| 4 | exist | present | no such Mayan word | actually property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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