Belize, sentence 334
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 is also mentioned that many slaves brought to Belize were trouble makers and resisters from Jamaican sugar cane plantations.
Who acts: many slaves · What happens: mention, bring, be · To what, where: majority, Jamaican cane plantations, trouble makers, Belize
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 (many slaves), 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 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 mentioned | advmod |
| 4 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 brought | mark |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 slaves | amod |
| 7 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brought | nsubj |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mentioned | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Belize | case |
| 10 | Belize | Belize | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 makers | obl |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 makers | cop |
| 12 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 makers | compound |
| 13 | makers | maker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brought | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 resisters | cc |
| 15 | resisters | resister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 makers | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 plantations | case |
| 17 | Jamaican | Jamaican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 plantations | amod |
| 18 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cane | compound |
| 19 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plantations | compound |
| 20 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brought | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mentioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | present · passive | majority | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | many slaves | Jamaican cane plantations | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from plantation=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | trouble makers and resisters | Belize | resisters conj | tree rules |
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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