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title: In 2023, 87 murders were recorded in Belize, giving the country a ho… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2023, 87 murders were recorded in Belize, giving the country a homicide rate of 19.7 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, lower than the neighbouring countries of Mexico and Honduras, but higher than Guatemala and El Salvador. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Belize, sentence 499

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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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In 2023, 87 murders were recorded in Belize, giving the country a homicide rate of 19.7 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, lower than the neighbouring countries of Mexico and Honduras, but higher than Guatemala and El Salvador.

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**What happens:** record, give · **To what, where:** 87 murders, 2023, country

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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:499
# text = In 2023, 87 murders were recorded in Belize, giving the country a homicide rate of 19.7 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, lower than the neighbouring countries of Mexico and Honduras, but higher than Guatemala and El Salvador.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	87	87	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	murders	murder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Belize	Belize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	homicide	homicide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	19.7	19.7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	murders	murder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	per	per	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	100,000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Honduras	Honduras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	parataxis	_	_
36	than	than	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Guatemala	Guatemala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	El	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	Salvador	Salvador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | past · passive |  | 87 murders |  | 2023 |  | in Belize | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 2023=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | gerund |  | the country |  |  |  | a homicide rate of 19.7 murders per 100,000 inhabitants *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent country=Recipient rate=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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