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title: A minority of less than one percent is from Ireland, the United King… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: A minority of less than one percent is from Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Lebanon, and other countries brought to assist the country's development. Who acts: minority, other countries, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belize, sentence 391

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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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A minority of less than one percent is from Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Lebanon, and other countries brought to assist the country's development.

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**Who acts:** minority, other countries, country · **What happens:** be, bring, assist, develop · **To what, where:** Ireland, development

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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 (minority, other countries, country), 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:391
# text = A minority of less than one percent is from Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Lebanon, and other countries brought to assist the country's development.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	minority	minority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	14	flat	_	_
14	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	assist	assist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a minority of one percent |  |  | Ireland and the United Kingdom and the United States and Canada and Lebanon |  | the United Kingdom *conj*; the United States *conj*; Canada *conj*; Lebanon *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past | other countries |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **assist** | to-infinitive | other countries *not said here* | the country's development |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent development=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **develop** |  | the country |  |  |  |  |  | nom development «act transitive»: poss=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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