Belize, sentence 73
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.
Perceptions of the government's relief effort as inadequate were aggravated by its refusal to legalize labour unions or introduce a minimum wage.
Who acts: refusal, effort · What happens: aggravate, legalize, introduce, perceive, refuse · To what, where: Perceptions, labour unions, minimum wage, relief effort
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 (refusal, effort), 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 | Perceptions | perception | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 aggravated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 effort | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 government | det |
| 4 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 effort | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 government | case |
| 6 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 effort | compound |
| 7 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Perceptions | nmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 inadequate | case |
| 9 | inadequate | inadequate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 effort | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 aggravated | aux:pass |
| 11 | aggravated | aggravate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 refusal | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 refusal | nmod:poss |
| 14 | refusal | refusal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 aggravated | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 legalize | mark |
| 16 | legalize | legalize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 aggravated | advcl |
| 17 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 unions | compound |
| 18 | unions | union | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 legalize | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 introduce | cc |
| 20 | introduce | introduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 legalize | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wage | det |
| 22 | minimum | minimum | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wage | amod |
| 23 | wage | wage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 introduce | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 aggravated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aggravate | past · passive | effort's refusal | Perceptions of the government's relief effort as inadequate | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | legalize | to-infinitive | effort's refusal not said here | labour unions | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | introduce | infinitive | effort's refusal not said here | a minimum wage | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wage=Patient | ||||
| 4 | perceive | the government's relief effort as inadequate | nom perception «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | refuse | effort | nom refusal «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.
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