--- title: In rural areas, meals often centre around locally grown maize, beans… — Belize · tree and pragmatics description: In rural areas, meals often centre around locally grown maize, beans, and squash, particularly in Maya communities, whereas Garifuna cuisine is known for its Afro-Caribbean roots and heavily features seafood and cassava-based dishes like ereba (cassava bread). 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In rural areas, meals often centre around locally grown maize, beans, and squash, particularly in Maya communities, whereas Garifuna cuisine is known for its Afro-Caribbean roots and heavily features seafood and cassava-based dishes like ereba (cassava bread). **What happens:** grow, know, feature, base · **To what, where:** Garifuna cuisine, seafood, rural areas 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. **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:537 # text = In rural areas, meals often centre around locally grown maize, beans, and squash, particularly in Maya communities, whereas Garifuna cuisine is known for its Afro-Caribbean roots and heavily features seafood and cassava-based dishes like ereba (cassava bread). 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 rural rural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 areas area NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 around around ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 locally locally ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 maize maize NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 beans bean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 squash squash NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 particularly particularly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 Maya Maya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 communities community NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 whereas whereas SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 Garifuna Garifuna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 cuisine cuisine NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 30 Afro Afro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Caribbean caribbean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 heavily heavily ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 features feature VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 37 seafood seafood NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 cassava cassava NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 based base VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 42 dishes dish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ _ 43 like like ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 ereba ereba NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 cassava cassava NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | locally *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **know** | present · passive | | Garifuna cuisine | | | | for cuisine's Afro Caribbean roots | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **feature** | present | | seafood and based dishes like ereba | | | | heavily *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **base** | participle | | | | | | cassava *compound* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 536](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belize/536/) - next →: [sentence 538](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belize/538/) - ↑ back to [Belize](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belize/)