Belize, sentence 47
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.
This yielded a valuable fixing agent for clothing dyes, and was one of the first ways to achieve a fast black before the advent of artificial dyes.
Who acts: This · What happens: yield, be, achieve · To what, where: valuable fixing agent, one, fast black advent
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 yielded | nsubj |
| 2 | yielded | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 agent | det |
| 4 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 agent | amod |
| 5 | fixing | fixing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 agent | compound |
| 6 | agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yielded | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 dyes | case |
| 8 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dyes | compound |
| 9 | dyes | dye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 agent | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 one | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | cop |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 yielded | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ways | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ways | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 ways | amod |
| 17 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 achieve | mark |
| 19 | achieve | achieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ways | acl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 advent | det |
| 21 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 advent | amod |
| 22 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 advent | amod |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 advent | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 advent | det |
| 25 | advent | advent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 achieve | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 dyes | case |
| 27 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dyes | amod |
| 28 | dyes | dye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 advent | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 yielded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yield | past | This | a valuable fixing agent | for clothing dyes goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent agent=Theme for dye=Goal | |||
| 2 | is a | past | one | of the first ways | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | achieve | to-infinitive | a fast black advent of artificial dyes | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advent=Eventuality |
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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