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title: The national tree is the mahogany tree (Swietenia macrophylla), whic… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: The national tree is the mahogany tree (Swietenia macrophylla), which inspired the national motto Sub umbra floreo, which means "Under the shade I flourish". Who acts: national tree, mahogany tree, national motto, umbra floreo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmati
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# Belize, sentence 523

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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 national tree is the mahogany tree (Swietenia macrophylla), which inspired the national motto Sub umbra floreo, which means "Under the shade I flourish".

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**Who acts:** national tree, mahogany tree, national motto, umbra floreo, data · **What happens:** be, inspire, floreo, mean, flourish · **To what, where:** mahogany tree, shade · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (national tree, mahogany tree, national motto, umbra floreo), 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:523
# text = The national tree is the mahogany tree (Swietenia macrophylla), which inspired the national motto Sub umbra floreo, which means "Under the shade I flourish".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	mahogany	mahogany	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Swietenia	Swietenia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	macrophylla	macrophylla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	motto	motto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	Sub	sub	ADV	AFX	_	19	compound	_	_
19	umbra	umbra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	floreo	floreo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	flourish	flourish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 national tree | the mahogany tree |  |  |  | Swietenia macrophylla *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **inspire** | past | the mahogany tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **floreo** |  | the national motto |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | present | umbra floreo |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **flourish** *in a quote* | present | Archives's data *= data* |  |  | the shade |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under shade=Location |

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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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