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title: The recorded history of the middle and southern regions focuses on C… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: The recorded history of the middle and southern regions focuses on Caracol, an urban political centre that may have supported over 140,000 people. Who acts: recorded history, 140,000 people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belize, sentence 37

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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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The recorded history of the middle and southern regions focuses on Caracol, an urban political centre that may have supported over 140,000 people.

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**Who acts:** recorded history, 140,000 people · **What happens:** record, focus, support · **To what, where:** urban political centre

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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 (recorded history, 140,000 people), 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:37
# text = The recorded history of the middle and southern regions focuses on Caracol, an urban political centre that may have supported over 140,000 people.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	focuses	focus	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Caracol	Caracol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	over	over	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	140,000	140,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **focus** | present | the recorded history of the middle and southern regions |  |  |  |  | on Caracol | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on caracol=Topic |
| 3 | **support** | may · perfect · passive | 140,000 people | a urban political centre |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |

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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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