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title: In 1836, after the emancipation of Central America from Spanish rule… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1836, after the emancipation of Central America from Spanish rule, the British claimed the right to administer the region. Who acts: emancipation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belize, sentence 65

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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 1836, after the emancipation of Central America from Spanish rule, the British claimed the right to administer the region.

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**Who acts:** emancipation · **What happens:** claim, administer, emancipate · **To what, where:** right, 1836, region, Central America, Spanish rule

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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 (emancipation), 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:65
# text = In 1836, after the emancipation of Central America from Spanish rule, the British claimed the right to administer the region.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1836	1836	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	emancipation	emancipation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
9	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	British	British	PROPN	NNP	_	12	appos	_	_
16	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	administer	administer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | the emancipation of Central America from Spanish rule | the right |  | 1836 |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent right=Topic |
| 2 | **administer** | to-infinitive | the emancipation of Central America from Spanish rule *not said here* | the region |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent region=Theme |
| 3 | **emancipate** |  |  | Central America |  | Spanish rule |  |  | nom emancipation «act transitive»: of=patient from=place |

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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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