Belize, sentence 37
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.
The recorded history of the middle and southern regions focuses on Caracol, an urban political centre that may have supported over 140,000 people.
Who acts: recorded history, 140,000 people · What happens: record, focus, support · To what, where: urban political centre
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 (recorded history, 140,000 people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 history | det |
| 2 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 history | amod |
| 3 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 focuses | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 middle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 middle | det |
| 6 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 history | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 regions | cc |
| 8 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 regions | amod |
| 9 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 middle | conj |
| 10 | focuses | focus | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Caracol | case |
| 12 | Caracol | Caracol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 focuses | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 centre | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 centre | det |
| 15 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 centre | amod |
| 16 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 centre | amod |
| 17 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Caracol | appos |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 supported | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 supported | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 supported | aux |
| 21 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 centre | acl:relcl |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 140,000 | advmod |
| 23 | 140,000 | 140,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 people | nummod |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 supported | obl:agent |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 focuses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | focus | present | the recorded history of the middle and southern regions | on Caracol | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on caracol=Topic | ||||
| 3 | support | may · perfect · passive | 140,000 people | a urban political centre | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
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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