Belize, sentence 407
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.
East Indians began arriving in Belize after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, with the first ship with Indians arriving in 1858 as part of the Indian indenture system set up by the British government after slavery was abolished.
Who acts: East Indians, Indians · What happens: begin, arrive, set up, abolish · To what, where: Belize, 1858, Indian indenture system, slavery
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 (East Indians, Indians), 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 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Indians | compound |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | arriving | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 began | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Belize | case |
| 6 | Belize | Belize | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arriving | obl |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 Rebellion | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rebellion | det |
| 9 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Rebellion | amod |
| 10 | Rebellion | Rebellion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arriving | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 1857 | case |
| 12 | 1857 | 1857 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 Rebellion | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ship | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 ship | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ship | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 ship | amod |
| 17 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arriving | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Indians | case |
| 19 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 ship | nmod |
| 20 | arriving | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 Indians | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1858 | case |
| 22 | 1858 | 1858 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 arriving | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 part | case |
| 24 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arriving | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 system | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 system | det |
| 27 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 system | amod |
| 28 | indenture | indenture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 system | compound |
| 29 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 part | nmod |
| 30 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 system | acl |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 set | compound:prt |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 government | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 government | det |
| 34 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 government | amod |
| 35 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 set | obl |
| 36 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 39 abolished | mark |
| 37 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 abolished | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 abolished | aux:pass |
| 39 | abolished | abolish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 set | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | East Indians | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | arrive | gerund | East Indians not said here | Belize | after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 | with the first ship with Indians | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 3 | arrive | gerund | Indians not said here | 1858 | as part of the Indian indenture system | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | set up | participle | the Indian indenture system not said here | by the British government | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by government=Destination | ||||
| 5 | abolish | past · passive | slavery | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Belize», 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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