Belize, sentence 58

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 the early 19th century, the British sought to reform the settlers, threatening to suspend the Public Meeting unless it observed the government's instructions to eliminate slavery outright.

Who acts: British, government · What happens: seek, reform, threaten, suspend, observe, eliminate · To what, where: settlers, Public Meeting, instructions, 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 (British, government), 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	_	5 century	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 century	det
3	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 century	amod
4	19th	19th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	5 century	amod
5	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sought	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 century	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 British	det
8	British	British	PROPN	_	9 sought	nsubj
9	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 reform	mark
11	reform	reform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sought	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 settlers	det
13	settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 reform	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 threatening	punct
15	threatening	threaten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sought	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 suspend	mark
17	suspend	suspend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 threatening	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Meeting	det
19	Public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Meeting	amod
20	Meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 suspend	obj
21	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	23 observed	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 observed	nsubj
23	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sought	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 government	det
25	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 instructions	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 government	case
27	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 observed	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 eliminate	mark
29	eliminate	eliminate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 observed	advcl
30	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eliminate	obj
31	outright	outright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 slavery	amod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	seek	past	the British		century	tree rules
2	reform not said to happen	to-infinitive	the British not said here	the settlers		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent settler=Patient
3	threaten	gerund	the British not said here			tree rules
4	suspend not said to happen	to-infinitive	the British not said here	the Public Meeting		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Theme
5	observe a condition, not said to happen	past	British	the government's instructions		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent instruction=Topic
6	eliminate	to-infinitive	British not said here	slavery		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slavery=Patient
7	instruct		the government			nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=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.

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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Belize, sentence 58