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title: East Indians began arriving in Belize after the Indian Rebellion of… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: East Indians began arriving in Belize after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, with the first ship with Indians arriving in 1858 as part of the Indian indenture system set up by the British government after slavery was abolished. Who acts: East Indians, Indians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with it
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# Belize, sentence 407

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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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East Indians began arriving in Belize after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, with the first ship with Indians arriving in 1858 as part of the Indian indenture system set up by the British government after slavery was abolished.

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**Who acts:** East Indians, Indians · **What happens:** begin, arrive, set up, abolish · **To what, where:** Belize, 1858, Indian indenture system, slavery

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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 (East Indians, Indians), 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:407
# text = East Indians began arriving in Belize after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, with the first ship with Indians arriving in 1858 as part of the Indian indenture system set up by the British government after slavery was abolished.
1	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Belize	Belize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Rebellion	Rebellion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1857	1857	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1858	1858	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	indenture	indenture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
30	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	abolished	abolish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | East Indians |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **arrive** | gerund | East Indians *not said here* |  |  | Belize | after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 | with the first ship with Indians | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **arrive** | gerund | Indians *not said here* |  |  | 1858 |  | as part of the Indian indenture system | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **set up** | participle |  | the Indian indenture system *not said here* |  |  |  | by the British government | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by government=Destination |
| 5 | **abolish** | past · passive |  | slavery |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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