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title: According to one genetic study, their ancestry is on average 76% Sub… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: According to one genetic study, their ancestry is on average 76% Sub Saharan African, 20% Arawak/Island Carib and 4% European. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belize, sentence 371

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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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According to one genetic study, their ancestry is on average 76% Sub Saharan African, 20% Arawak/Island Carib and 4% European.

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**What happens:** accord, be · **To what, where:** one genetic study, average

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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: 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:371
# text = According to one genetic study, their ancestry is on average 76% Sub Saharan African, 20% Arawak/Island Carib and 4% European.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	genetic	genetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ancestry	ancestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	76	76	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	Sub	sub	ADV	AFX	_	15	compound	_	_
15	Saharan	Saharan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:desc	_	_
20	Arawak/Island	Arawak/Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	Carib	Carib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to one genetic study *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to study=Goal |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | average |  | accord study's ancestry | 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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