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title: There is no proof that buccaneers settled in this area and there is… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no proof that buccaneers settled in this area and there is no evidence of the very existence of Wallace. Who acts: proof, evidence, Wallace. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belize, sentence 29

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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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There is no proof that buccaneers settled in this area and there is no evidence of the very existence of Wallace.

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**Who acts:** proof, evidence, Wallace · **What happens:** be, settle, evidence, exist · **To what, where:** proof, area, existence

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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 (proof, evidence, Wallace), 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:29
# text = There is no proof that buccaneers settled in this area and there is no evidence of the very existence of Wallace.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	buccaneers	buccaneer	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Wallace	Wallace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no proof |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **settle** | present · passive |  | no proof |  | this area |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in area=Location |
| 3 | **be** | present | no evidence of the existence of Wallace |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **evidence** |  |  | the existence of Wallace |  |  |  |  | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **exist** |  | Wallace |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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