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title: Unlike the fast integration and intermarriages of creoles with Afric… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: Unlike the fast integration and intermarriages of creoles with Africans and Hispanics in Belize City, the creoles in the Belize river valley area had a lighter complexion and more visible European traits. Who acts: creoles. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belize, sentence 341

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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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Unlike the fast integration and intermarriages of creoles with Africans and Hispanics in Belize City, the creoles in the Belize river valley area had a lighter complexion and more visible European traits.

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**Who acts:** creoles · **What happens:** have, intermarry · **To what, where:** lighter complexion

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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 (creoles), 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:341
# text = Unlike the fast integration and intermarriages of creoles with Africans and Hispanics in Belize City, the creoles in the Belize river valley area had a lighter complexion and more visible European traits.
1	Unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	integration	integration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	intermarriages	intermarriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	creoles	creole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Africans	African	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Hispanics	hispanic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Belize	Belize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	creoles	creole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	Belize	Belize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
22	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	complexion	complexion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
31	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	traits	trait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the creoles in the Belize valley area | a lighter complexion and visible European traits |  |  |  | unlike the fast integration and intermarriages of creoles with Africans and Hispanics in Belize City | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent complexion=Patient |
| 2 | **intermarry** |  | creoles with Africans and Hispanics in Belize City |  |  |  |  |  | nom intermarriage «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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