Guyana, sentence 165
From Wikipedia, «Guyana», 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.
However, cross-dressing has been legal since 2018, when a ban was struck down by Guyana's court of last resort, the Caribbean Court of Justice.
Who acts: court · What happens: cross-dress, be, strike down · To what, where: ban
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Guyana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 legal | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | cross-dressing | cross-dress | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 legal | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 legal | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 legal | cop |
| 6 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | since | since | ADP | _ | 8 2018 | case |
| 8 | 2018 | 2018 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 legal | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 struck | punct |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 struck | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ban | det |
| 12 | ban | ban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 struck | aux:pass |
| 14 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 legal | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 struck | compound:prt |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 court | case |
| 17 | Guyana | Guyana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 court | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Guyana | case |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 struck | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 resort | case |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 resort | amod |
| 22 | resort | resort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 court | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Court | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Court | det |
| 25 | Caribbean | Caribbean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Court | compound |
| 26 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 resort | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Justice | case |
| 28 | Justice | Justice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Court | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 legal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross-dress | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | present · perfect | since 2018 | however, legal property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | strike down | past · passive | Guyana's court of last resort | a ban | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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