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title: Belize's rugged geography has also made the country's coastline and… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: Belize's rugged geography has also made the country's coastline and jungle attractive to drug smugglers, who use the country as a gateway into Mexico. Who acts: smugglers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belize, sentence 120

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From Wikipedia, [«Belize»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Belize's rugged geography has also made the country's coastline and jungle attractive to drug smugglers, who use the country as a gateway into Mexico.

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**Who acts:** smugglers · **What happens:** make, drug, use · **To what, where:** rugged geography, smugglers, country, Mexico

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Belize». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smugglers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Belize:120
# text = Belize's rugged geography has also made the country's coastline and jungle attractive to drug smugglers, who use the country as a gateway into Mexico.
1	Belize	belize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	rugged	rugged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	geography	geography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	coastline	coastline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	attractive	attractive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	drug	drug	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	smugglers	smuggler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	gateway	gateway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · perfect · passive |  | Belize's rugged geography |  |  |  | the country's coastline and jungle *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary coastline=Product |
| 2 | **drug** | to-infinitive |  | smugglers |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent smuggler=Destination |
| 3 | **use** | present | smugglers | the country |  | Mexico |  | as a gateway | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent country=Duration as gateway=Attribute |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Belize», 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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