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title: In 2017, the Government and people of Belize made marine conservatio… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2017, the Government and people of Belize made marine conservation history implementing an indefinite moratorium on offshore oil activities everywhere Belize exercises maritime jurisdiction. Who acts: Government, Belize. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belize, sentence 170

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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 2017, the Government and people of Belize made marine conservation history implementing an indefinite moratorium on offshore oil activities everywhere Belize exercises maritime jurisdiction.

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**Who acts:** Government, Belize · **What happens:** make, implement, exercise · **To what, where:** marine conservation history, 2017, indefinite moratorium, offshore oil activities, maritime jurisdiction

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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 (Government, Belize), 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:170
# text = In 2017, the Government and people of Belize made marine conservation history implementing an indefinite moratorium on offshore oil activities everywhere Belize exercises maritime jurisdiction.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Belize	Belize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	marine	marine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	conservation	conservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	implementing	implement	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	csubj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	indefinite	indefinite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	moratorium	moratorium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	offshore	offshore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	activities	activity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
22	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
23	Belize	Belize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	exercises	exercise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
25	maritime	maritime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	jurisdiction	jurisdiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Government and people of Belize | marine conservation history |  | 2017 |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset history=Product |
| 2 | **implement** | gerund |  | a indefinite moratorium |  | offshore oil activities |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moratorium=Patient |
| 3 | **exercise** | present | Belize | maritime jurisdiction |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jurisdiction=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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