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title: It has been proposed that Delgado's "Balis" was actually the Mayan w… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: It has been proposed that Delgado's "Balis" was actually the Mayan word belix (or beliz), meaning "muddy water", although no such Mayan word actually exists. Who acts: Balis, such Mayan word. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belize, sentence 26

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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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It has been proposed that Delgado's "Balis" was actually the Mayan word belix (or beliz), meaning "muddy water", although no such Mayan word actually exists.

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**Who acts:** Balis, such Mayan word · **What happens:** propose, be, mean, exist · **To what, where:** name, word belix, muddy water

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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 (Balis, such Mayan word), 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:26
# text = It has been proposed that Delgado's "Balis" was actually the Mayan word belix (or beliz), meaning "muddy water", although no such Mayan word actually exists.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
6	Delgado	Delgado	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Balis	Balis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Mayan	mayan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	belix	belix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	beliz	beliz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	Mayan	mayan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | present · perfect · passive |  | name |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Delgado's Balis | word belix |  |  |  | beliz *appos*; actually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | gerund |  | muddy water |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic |
| 4 | **exist** | present | no such Mayan word |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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