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title: In December 2015, Belize banned offshore oil drilling within 1 km of… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: In December 2015, Belize banned offshore oil drilling within 1 km of the Barrier Reef and all of its seven World Heritage Sites. Who acts: Belize, offshore oil. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belize, sentence 169

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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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In December 2015, Belize banned offshore oil drilling within 1 km of the Barrier Reef and all of its seven World Heritage Sites.

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**Who acts:** Belize, offshore oil · **What happens:** ban, drill · **To what, where:** offshore oil

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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 (Belize, offshore oil), 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:169
# text = In December 2015, Belize banned offshore oil drilling within 1 km of the Barrier Reef and all of its seven World Heritage Sites.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Belize	Belize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	banned	ban	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	offshore	offshore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	drilling	drill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Barrier	Barrier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Reef	Reef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
21	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
22	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Heritage	Heritage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Sites	Site	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ban** | past | Belize | offshore oil |  |  | december |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer oil=Theme |
| 2 | **drill** | gerund | offshore oil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within 1 km of the Barrier Reef and oil's seven Heritage Sites | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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