Guatemala, sentence 202
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.
When the US declared war against Germany in 1941, Ubico acted on American instructions and arrested all people in Guatemala of German descent.
Who acts: US, Ubico · What happens: declare, act, arrest · To what, where: war, 1941, American instructions, people, Guatemala
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 (US, Ubico), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 declared | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 US | det |
| 3 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 declared | nsubj |
| 4 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 acted | advcl |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 declared | obj |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 Germany | case |
| 7 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 declared | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1941 | case |
| 9 | 1941 | 1941 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 declared | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 declared | punct |
| 11 | Ubico | Ubico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 acted | nsubj |
| 12 | acted | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 instructions | case |
| 14 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 instructions | amod |
| 15 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 acted | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 arrested | cc |
| 17 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 acted | conj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 arrested | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Guatemala | case |
| 21 | Guatemala | Guatemala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 people | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 descent | case |
| 23 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 descent | amod |
| 24 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 people | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 acted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the US | war | 1941 | against Germany | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute | ||
| 2 | act | past | Ubico | American instructions | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on instruction=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | arrest | past | Ubico not said here | all people of German descent | Guatemala | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
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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