Guatemala, sentence 587
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.
Certain foods are also commonly eaten on certain days of the week; for example, a popular custom is to eat paches (a kind of tamale made from potatoes) on Thursday.
Who acts: popular custom · What happens: eat, be, make · To what, where: Certain foods, tamale, potatoes
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 (popular custom), 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 | Certain | certain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 foods | compound |
| 2 | foods | food | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eaten | aux:pass |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 eaten | advmod |
| 5 | commonly | commonly | ADV | _ | 6 eaten | advmod |
| 6 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 days | case |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 days | amod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eaten | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 week | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 week | det |
| 12 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 days | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 eat | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 example | case |
| 15 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eat | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 example | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 custom | det |
| 18 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 custom | amod |
| 19 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eat | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 eat | cop |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 eat | mark |
| 22 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 eaten | conj |
| 23 | paches | pach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 eat | obj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 kind | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 kind | det |
| 26 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 paches | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tamale | case |
| 28 | tamale | tamale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kind | nmod |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 tamale | acl |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 potatoes | case |
| 31 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 made | obl |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 kind | punct |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 Thursday | case |
| 34 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 eat | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · passive | Certain foods | day | commonly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | a popular custom | thursday | for example; paches obj; eat property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | participle | tamale not said here | potatoes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from potato=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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