Guyana, sentence 193
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.
After the initial rush to find gold in the New World waned, the Dutch found the climate to be suitable for growing sugar cane, converting large tracts of the Guyanese coast into plantations and supplying with labour from the Atlantic slave trade.
Who acts: Dutch, climate · What happens: find, wane, be, grow, convert, supply · To what, where: climate, sugar cane, large tracts, plantations, Atlantic slave trade
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 (Dutch, climate), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rush | det |
| 3 | initial | initial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rush | amod |
| 4 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gold | compound |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rush | acl |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waned | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 World | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 World | det |
| 10 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 World | amod |
| 11 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gold | nmod |
| 12 | waned | wane | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Dutch | det |
| 15 | Dutch | dutch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 waned | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 climate | det |
| 18 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 suitable | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 suitable | cop |
| 21 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 found | xcomp |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 growing | mark |
| 23 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 suitable | advcl |
| 24 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cane | compound |
| 25 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 growing | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 converting | punct |
| 27 | converting | convert | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 found | advcl |
| 28 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tracts | amod |
| 29 | tracts | tract | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 converting | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 coast | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 coast | det |
| 32 | Guyanese | guyanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 coast | amod |
| 33 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tracts | nmod |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 plantations | case |
| 35 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 converting | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 supplying | cc |
| 37 | supplying | supply | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 converting | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 labour | case |
| 39 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 supplying | obl |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 trade | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 trade | det |
| 42 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 trade | compound |
| 43 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 trade | compound |
| 44 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 supplying | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 waned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | wane | past | after rush gold in the New World | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | find | past | the Dutch | the climate | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climate=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | the climate not said here | suitable property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | grow | gerund | the climate not said here | sugar cane | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cane=Theme | ||||
| 6 | convert | gerund | the Dutch not said here | large tracts of the Guyanese coast | into plantations result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent tract=Patient into plantation=Result | |||
| 7 | supply | gerund | the Dutch not said here | the Atlantic slave trade | with labour | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with labour=Theme |
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, «Guyana», 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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