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title: According to the World Database on Protected Areas, 37% of Belize's… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the World Database on Protected Areas, 37% of Belize's land territory falls under some form of official protection, giving Belize one of the most extensive systems of terrestrial protected areas in the Americas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belize, sentence 136

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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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According to the World Database on Protected Areas, 37% of Belize's land territory falls under some form of official protection, giving Belize one of the most extensive systems of terrestrial protected areas in the Americas.

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**What happens:** accord, protect, fall, give, form · **To what, where:** form, one protected areas, Americas, official protection

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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: 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:136
# text = According to the World Database on Protected Areas, 37% of Belize's land territory falls under some form of official protection, giving Belize one of the most extensive systems of terrestrial protected areas in the Americas.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Database	database	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Protected	protect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	Areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	37	37	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	Belize	Belize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
26	Belize	Belize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:unmarked	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	31	advmod	_	_
31	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	systems	system	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	terrestrial	terrestrial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	protected	protect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **protect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | present |  |  |  | some form of official protection |  | accord the World Database on Protected Areas | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under form=Location |
| 4 | **give** | gerund |  | one protected areas |  | the Americas |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Theme |
| 5 | **protect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **form** |  |  | official protection |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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