Guatemala, sentence 190
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.
Ubico also froze wages at very low levels, and passed a law allowing land-owners complete immunity from prosecution for any action they took to defend their property, an action described by historians as legalizing murder.
Who acts: Ubico, law, owners · What happens: freeze, pass, allow, take, defend, describe · To what, where: wages, low levels, law, land owners, action, property
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 (Ubico, law, owners), 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 | Ubico | Ubico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 froze | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 froze | advmod |
| 3 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 froze | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 levels | case |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 low | advmod |
| 7 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 levels | amod |
| 8 | levels | level | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 froze | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 passed | cc |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 froze | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 law | det |
| 13 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | obj |
| 14 | allowing | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 law | acl |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 owners | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 land | punct |
| 17 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 allowing | obj |
| 18 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 immunity | amod |
| 19 | immunity | immunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 allowing | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 prosecution | case |
| 21 | prosecution | prosecution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 immunity | nmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 action | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 action | det |
| 24 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 prosecution | nmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 took | nsubj |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 action | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 defend | mark |
| 28 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 took | advcl |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 property | nmod:poss |
| 30 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 defend | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 action | punct |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 action | det |
| 33 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 property | conj |
| 34 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 action | acl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 historians | case |
| 36 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 described | obl:agent |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 legalizing | mark |
| 38 | legalizing | legalize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 described | advcl |
| 39 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 legalizing | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 froze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | past | Ubico | wages | low levels | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient wage=Result | |||
| 2 | pass | past | Ubico not said here | a law | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme law=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | allow | gerund | a law not said here | land owners | complete immunity obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent owner=Goal immunity=Theme | |||
| 4 | take | past | owners = owner | any action not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Theme | ||||
| 5 | defend | to-infinitive | owners = owner not said here | owners's property and a action | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | describe | participle | a action not said here | historians obl:agent | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | legalize | gerund | murder | tree rules |
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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