Guatemala, sentence 113
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Guzmán was sure of victory this time, but his plan evaporated when in his absence Carrera and his native allies occupied Quetzaltenango; Carrera appointed Ignacio Yrigoyen as Corregidor and convinced him that he should work with the K'iche', Q'anjobal and Mam leaders to keep the region under control.
Who acts: Guzmán, plan, absence, Carrera · What happens: be, evaporate, occupy, appoint, convince, work · To what, where: Quetzaltenango, Ignacio, Guzmán, region, control
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Guatemala». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guzmán, plan, absence, Carrera), 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 | Guzmán | Guzmán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 victory | case |
| 5 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | obl |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 evaporated | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 evaporated | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 plan | nmod:poss |
| 11 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 evaporated | nsubj |
| 12 | evaporated | evaporate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 occupied | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 absence | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 absence | nmod:poss |
| 16 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 occupied | nsubj |
| 17 | Carrera | Carrera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 absence | appos |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 allies | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 allies | nmod:poss |
| 20 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 allies | amod |
| 21 | allies | ally | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Carrera | conj |
| 22 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 evaporated | advcl |
| 23 | Quetzaltenango | Quetzaltenango | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 occupied | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 appointed | punct |
| 25 | Carrera | Carrera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 appointed | nsubj |
| 26 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 27 | Ignacio | Ignacio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 appointed | obj |
| 28 | Yrigoyen | Yrigoyen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Ignacio | flat |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 Corregidor | case |
| 30 | Corregidor | Corregidor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 appointed | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 convinced | cc |
| 32 | convinced | convince | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 appointed | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 convinced | obj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 work | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 work | nsubj |
| 36 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 work | aux |
| 37 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 convinced | ccomp |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 leaders | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 K'iche | det |
| 40 | K'iche | K'iche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 leaders | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 40 K'iche | case |
| 42 | Q'anjobal | Q'anjobal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 leaders | compound |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 Mam | cc |
| 44 | Mam | Mam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Q'anjobal | conj |
| 45 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 work | obl |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 keep | mark |
| 47 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 work | advcl |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 region | det |
| 49 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 keep | obj |
| 50 | under | under | ADP | _ | 51 control | case |
| 51 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 keep | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Guzmán | time | of victory; sure property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | evaporate | past | Guzmán's plan | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | occupy | past | Guzmán's absence | Quetzaltenango | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus quetzaltenango=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | appoint | past | Carrera | Ignacio | as Corregidor | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ignacio=Theme as corregidor=Attribute | |||
| 5 | convince | past | Carrera not said here | Guzmán | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 6 | work | should | Guzmán | with the K'iche's Q'anjobal leaders | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with leader=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | keep | to-infinitive | Guzmán not said here | the region | control | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent region=Theme under control=Location | |||
| 8 | plan | Guzmán | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | absent | Guzmán | nom absence «state 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, «Guatemala», 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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