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title: They were active and part of the Battle of St George's Caye, Part of… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: They were active and part of the Battle of St George's Caye, Part of the British West Indies Battalion in world war one and world war two, and the Negro movement for equal rights. Who acts: Creole. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belize, sentence 344

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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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They were active and part of the Battle of St George's Caye, Part of the British West Indies Battalion in world war one and world war two, and the Negro movement for equal rights.

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**Who acts:** Creole · **What happens:** be

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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 (Creole), 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:344
# text = They were active and part of the Battle of St George's Caye, Part of the British West Indies Battalion in world war one and world war two, and the Negro movement for equal rights.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
11	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	Caye	Caye	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Part	Part	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Indies	Indies	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Battalion	Battalion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Negro	negro	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Creole |  |  |  |  | part of the Battle of St George's Caye and Part of the British Indies Battalion in world war and world war *conj*; the Negro movement for equal rights *conj*; active *property* | 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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