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title: It is also mentioned that many slaves brought to Belize were trouble… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: It is also mentioned that many slaves brought to Belize were trouble makers and resisters from Jamaican sugar cane plantations. Who acts: many slaves. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belize, sentence 334

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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 is also mentioned that many slaves brought to Belize were trouble makers and resisters from Jamaican sugar cane plantations.

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**Who acts:** many slaves · **What happens:** mention, bring, be · **To what, where:** majority, Jamaican cane plantations, trouble makers, Belize

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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 (many slaves), 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:334
# text = It is also mentioned that many slaves brought to Belize were trouble makers and resisters from Jamaican sugar cane plantations.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Belize	Belize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	makers	maker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	resisters	resister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	Jamaican	Jamaican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	plantations	plantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | majority |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** | past | many slaves |  |  | Jamaican cane plantations |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from plantation=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | trouble makers and resisters | Belize |  |  | resisters *conj* | tree rules |

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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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