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title: This yielded a valuable fixing agent for clothing dyes, and was one… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: This yielded a valuable fixing agent for clothing dyes, and was one of the first ways to achieve a fast black before the advent of artificial dyes. Who acts: This. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belize, sentence 47

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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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This yielded a valuable fixing agent for clothing dyes, and was one of the first ways to achieve a fast black before the advent of artificial dyes.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** yield, be, achieve · **To what, where:** valuable fixing agent, one, fast black advent

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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 (This), 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:47
# text = This yielded a valuable fixing agent for clothing dyes, and was one of the first ways to achieve a fast black before the advent of artificial dyes.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	yielded	yield	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	fixing	fixing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	agent	agent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dyes	dye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
14	of	of	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	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	achieve	achieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
21	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	advent	advent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	dyes	dye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yield** | past | This | a valuable fixing agent |  |  |  | for clothing dyes *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent agent=Theme for dye=Goal |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | one |  |  |  | of the first ways | tree rules |
| 3 | **achieve** | to-infinitive |  | a fast black advent of artificial dyes |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advent=Eventuality |

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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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