Suriname, sentence 187
From Wikipedia, «Suriname», 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.
He was the main suspect in the court case concerning the December murders, the 1982 assassination of opponents of military rule in Fort Zeelandia, Paramaribo.
Who acts: Dési, court case · What happens: be, concern, assassinate · To what, where: main suspect, court case, December murders, opponents
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Suriname». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dési, court case), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 suspect | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suspect | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 suspect | det |
| 4 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 suspect | amod |
| 5 | suspect | suspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 case | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 case | det |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 case | compound |
| 9 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suspect | nmod |
| 10 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 case | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 murders | det |
| 12 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 murders | compound |
| 13 | murders | murder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 concerning | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 assassination | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 assassination | det |
| 16 | 1982 | 1982 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 assassination | nummod |
| 17 | assassination | assassination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 murders | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 opponents | case |
| 19 | opponents | opponent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 assassination | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 rule | case |
| 21 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rule | amod |
| 22 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 opponents | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Fort | case |
| 24 | Fort | Fort | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 rule | nmod |
| 25 | Zeelandia | Zeelandia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Fort | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Paramaribo | punct |
| 27 | Paramaribo | Paramaribo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Fort | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suspect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Dési | the main suspect | the court case | tree rules | |||
| 2 | concern | gerund | the court case not said here | the December murders | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus murder=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | assassinate | opponents of military rule in Fort and Paramaribo | nom assassination «communication 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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