Belize, sentence 71
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.
The Great Depression of the 1930s caused a near-collapse of the colony's economy as British demand for timber plummeted.
Who acts: Great Depression, economy · What happens: cause, plummet, collapse · To what, where: near collapse, timber
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 (Great Depression, economy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Depression | det |
| 2 | Great | Great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Depression | amod |
| 3 | Depression | Depression | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 caused | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 1930s | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 1930s | det |
| 6 | 1930s | 1930 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 Depression | nmod |
| 7 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 collapse | det |
| 9 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 collapse | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 near | punct |
| 11 | collapse | collapse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caused | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 economy | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 colony | det |
| 14 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 economy | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 colony | case |
| 16 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 collapse | nmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 demand | case |
| 18 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 demand | amod |
| 19 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caused | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 timber | case |
| 21 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 demand | nmod |
| 22 | plummeted | plummet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 timber | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | the Great Depression of the 1930s | a near collapse of the colony's economy | as British demand for timber | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition collapse=Patient | |||
| 2 | plummet | participle | timber not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | collapse | the colony's economy | nom collapse «state intransitive»: of=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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