Guatemala, sentence 167
From Wikipedia, «Guatemala», 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.
By the time Estrada Cabrera assumed the presidency there had been repeated efforts to construct a railroad from the major port of Puerto Barrios to the capital, Guatemala City.
Who acts: Estrada · What happens: assume, repeat, construct · To what, where: presidency, railroad, major port
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 (Estrada), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 assumed | obl |
| 4 | Estrada | Estrada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 assumed | nsubj |
| 5 | Cabrera | Cabrera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Estrada | flat |
| 6 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 presidency | det |
| 8 | presidency | presidency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 presidency | advmod |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 repeated | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 repeated | aux:pass |
| 12 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 assumed | ccomp |
| 13 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 repeated | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 construct | mark |
| 15 | construct | construct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 repeated | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 railroad | det |
| 17 | railroad | railroad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 construct | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 port | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 port | det |
| 20 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 port | amod |
| 21 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 construct | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Barrios | case |
| 23 | Puerto | Puerto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Barrios | compound |
| 24 | Barrios | barrio | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 port | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 capital | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 capital | det |
| 27 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Barrios | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 City | punct |
| 29 | Guatemala | Guatemala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 City | compound |
| 30 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 port | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 assumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assume | past | Estrada | time | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | repeat | past · perfect · passive | the presidency | efforts obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | construct | to-infinitive | a railroad | the major port of Puerto Barrios to the capital and Guatemala City | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent railroad=Result from port=Material |
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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