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title: The largest White group of almost four percent are the German speaki… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: The largest White group of almost four percent are the German speaking Mennonites who form a spectrum from very traditional and conservative groups like the Old Colony Mennonites and the Noah Hoover Mennonites to more modern groups like the Kleine Gemeinde, the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (Ho
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# Belize, sentence 393

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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 largest White group of almost four percent are the German speaking Mennonites who form a spectrum from very traditional and conservative groups like the Old Colony Mennonites and the Noah Hoover Mennonites to more modern groups like the Kleine Gemeinde, the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (Holdeman Mennonites) and groups belonging to the Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference.

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**Who acts:** largest White group, German speaking Mennonites, Holdeman Mennonites · **What happens:** be, form, belong · **To what, where:** German speaking Mennonites, spectrum, traditional groups

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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 (largest White group, German speaking Mennonites, Holdeman Mennonites), 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:393
# text = The largest White group of almost four percent are the German speaking Mennonites who form a spectrum from very traditional and conservative groups like the Old Colony Mennonites and the Noah Hoover Mennonites to more modern groups like the Kleine Gemeinde, the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (Holdeman Mennonites) and groups belonging to the Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	speaking	speaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Mennonites	mennonite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	spectrum	spectrum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	conservative	conservative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	Colony	Colony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Mennonites	Mennonite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Hoover	Hoover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Mennonites	mennonite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
36	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
38	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Kleine	Kleine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Gemeinde	Gemeinde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	Mennonite	Mennonite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
51	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	Holdeman	Holdeman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	Mennonites	mennonite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	53	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	conj	_	_
57	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	53	acl	_	_
58	to	to	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
60	Evangelical	Evangelical	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	Mennonite	Mennonite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	_
62	Mission	Mission	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	_
63	Conference	Conference	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the largest White group of four percent | the German speaking Mennonites |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | present | the German speaking Mennonites | a spectrum |  | traditional groups like the Old Colony Mennonites and the Hoover Mennonites |  | to more modern groups like the Kleine Gemeinde and Mennonite and Holdeman Mennonites and groups | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent spectrum=Result from group=Material |
| 3 | **belong** | gerund | Holdeman Mennonites and groups *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Mennonite Mission Conference | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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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