Belize, sentence 537
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 rural areas, meals often centre around locally grown maize, beans, and squash, particularly in Maya communities, whereas Garifuna cuisine is known for its Afro-Caribbean roots and heavily features seafood and cassava-based dishes like ereba (cassava bread).
What happens: grow, know, feature, base · To what, where: Garifuna cuisine, seafood, rural areas
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 | _ | 3 areas | case |
| 2 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 areas | amod |
| 3 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 meals | punct |
| 5 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 areas | conj |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 centre | advmod |
| 7 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meals | nmod |
| 8 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 maize | case |
| 9 | locally | locally | ADV | _ | 10 grown | advmod |
| 10 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 maize | amod |
| 11 | maize | maize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 centre | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beans | punct |
| 13 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 areas | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 squash | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 squash | cc |
| 16 | squash | squash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 areas | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 communities | punct |
| 18 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 21 communities | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 communities | case |
| 20 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 communities | compound |
| 21 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 areas | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 known | punct |
| 23 | whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 27 known | mark |
| 24 | Garifuna | Garifuna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 cuisine | compound |
| 25 | cuisine | cuisine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 known | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 known | aux:pass |
| 27 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 areas | parataxis |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 roots | case |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 roots | nmod:poss |
| 30 | Afro | Afro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 roots | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Afro | punct |
| 32 | Caribbean | caribbean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 roots | amod |
| 33 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 known | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 features | cc |
| 35 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 36 features | advmod |
| 36 | features | feature | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 roots | conj |
| 37 | seafood | seafood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 features | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 dishes | cc |
| 39 | cassava | cassava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 based | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 cassava | punct |
| 41 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 dishes | amod |
| 42 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 seafood | conj |
| 43 | like | like | ADP | _ | 44 ereba | case |
| 44 | ereba | ereba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 dishes | nmod |
| 45 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 47 bread | punct |
| 46 | cassava | cassava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 bread | compound |
| 47 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 ereba | appos |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 47 bread | punct |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 areas | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | locally property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | present · passive | Garifuna cuisine | for cuisine's Afro Caribbean roots | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | feature | present | seafood and based dishes like ereba | heavily property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | base | participle | cassava compound | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |
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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