Guatemala, sentence 272
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.
As a result of the Army's "scorched earth" tactics in the countryside, more than 45,000 Guatemalans fled across the border to Mexico.
Who acts: 45,000 Guatemalans · What happens: scorch, flee, result · To what, where: Mexico, border, earth tactics
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 (45,000 Guatemalans), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 result | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 result | det |
| 3 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fled | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tactics | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Army | det |
| 6 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tactics | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Army | case |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 earth | punct |
| 9 | scorched | scorch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 earth | amod |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tactics | compound |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 earth | punct |
| 12 | tactics | tactic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 result | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 countryside | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 countryside | det |
| 15 | countryside | countryside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tactics | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 result | punct |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 19 45,000 | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 more | fixed |
| 19 | 45,000 | 45,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 Guatemalans | nummod |
| 20 | Guatemalans | Guatemalan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 fled | nsubj |
| 21 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | across | across | ADP | _ | 24 border | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 border | det |
| 24 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fled | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Mexico | case |
| 26 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 fled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scorch in a quote | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | flee | past | 45,000 Guatemalans | Mexico | the border | as a result of the Army's earth tactics in the countryside | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme across border=Initial_Location to mexico=Destination | ||
| 3 | result | the Army's earth tactics in the countryside | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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