Belize, sentence 499
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.
In 2023, 87 murders were recorded in Belize, giving the country a homicide rate of 19.7 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, lower than the neighbouring countries of Mexico and Honduras, but higher than Guatemala and El Salvador.
What happens: record, give · To what, where: 87 murders, 2023, country
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2023 | case |
| 2 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 recorded | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2023 | punct |
| 4 | 87 | 87 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 murders | nummod |
| 5 | murders | murder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 recorded | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 recorded | aux:pass |
| 7 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Belize | case |
| 9 | Belize | Belize | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 recorded | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 giving | punct |
| 11 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 recorded | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 country | det |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 giving | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rate | det |
| 15 | homicide | homicide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rate | compound |
| 16 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 giving | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 murders | case |
| 18 | 19.7 | 19.7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 murders | nummod |
| 19 | murders | murder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rate | nmod |
| 20 | per | per | ADP | _ | 22 inhabitants | case |
| 21 | 100,000 | 100000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 inhabitants | nummod |
| 22 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 murders | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lower | punct |
| 24 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 inhabitants | amod |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 countries | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 countries | det |
| 27 | neighbouring | neighbouring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 countries | amod |
| 28 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lower | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Mexico | case |
| 30 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 countries | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Honduras | cc |
| 32 | Honduras | Honduras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Mexico | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 higher | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 higher | cc |
| 35 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 recorded | parataxis |
| 36 | than | than | ADP | _ | 37 Guatemala | case |
| 37 | Guatemala | Guatemala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 higher | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 El | cc |
| 39 | El | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Guatemala | conj |
| 40 | Salvador | Salvador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 El | flat |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 recorded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | past · passive | 87 murders | 2023 | in Belize | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 2023=Destination | |||
| 2 | give | gerund | the country | a homicide rate of 19.7 murders per 100,000 inhabitants obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent country=Recipient rate=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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