Panama, sentence 139
From Wikipedia, «Panama», 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.
Noriega's regime was supported by the United States and it began playing a double role in Central America.
Who acts: United States, regime · What happens: support, begin, play · To what, where: regime, double role, Central America
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Panama». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (United States, regime), 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 | Noriega | Noriega | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 regime | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Noriega | case |
| 3 | regime | regime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 supported | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 supported | aux:pass |
| 5 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 States | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 States | det |
| 8 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 States | amod |
| 9 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 supported | obl:agent |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 supported | conj |
| 13 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 began | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 role | det |
| 15 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 role | amod |
| 16 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 playing | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 America | case |
| 18 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 America | flat |
| 19 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 role | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 supported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | support | past · passive | the United States | Noriega's regime | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | regime | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | play | gerund | regime not said here | a double role | Central America | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=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.
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