Suriname, sentence 334
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.
This is a legacy of centuries of Dutch rule, which entailed successive periods of forced, contracted, or voluntary migration by various nationalities and ethnic groups from around the world.
Who acts: This, Dutch rule, various nationalities · What happens: be, entail, force, contract, migrate · To what, where: legacy, successive periods
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 (This, Dutch rule, various nationalities), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 legacy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 legacy | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 legacy | det |
| 4 | legacy | legacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 centuries | case |
| 6 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 legacy | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rule | case |
| 8 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rule | amod |
| 9 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 centuries | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 entailed | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 entailed | nsubj |
| 12 | entailed | entail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rule | acl:relcl |
| 13 | successive | successive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 periods | amod |
| 14 | periods | period | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 entailed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 forced | mark |
| 16 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 periods | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 contracted | punct |
| 18 | contracted | contract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 forced | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 migration | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 migration | cc |
| 21 | voluntary | voluntary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 migration | amod |
| 22 | migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 entailed | obl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 nationalities | case |
| 24 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 nationalities | amod |
| 25 | nationalities | nationality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 migration | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 groups | cc |
| 27 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 groups | amod |
| 28 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 nationalities | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 30 | around | around | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 nationalities | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 legacy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a legacy | century | tree rules | |||
| 2 | entail | past | Dutch rule | successive periods | voluntary migration by various nationalities from the world and ethnic groups obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | force | participle | successive periods not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | contract | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | migrate | various nationalities from the world and ethnic groups | nom migration «act intransitive»: by=agent |
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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