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title: The Great Depression of the 1930s caused a near-collapse of the colo… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: The Great Depression of the 1930s caused a near-collapse of the colony's economy as British demand for timber plummeted. Who acts: Great Depression, economy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belize, sentence 71

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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 Great Depression of the 1930s caused a near-collapse of the colony's economy as British demand for timber plummeted.

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**Who acts:** Great Depression, economy · **What happens:** cause, plummet, collapse · **To what, where:** near collapse, timber

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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 (Great Depression, economy), 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:71
# text = The Great Depression of the 1930s caused a near-collapse of the colony's economy as British demand for timber plummeted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Great	Great	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Depression	Depression	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	1930s	1930	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
7	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	collapse	collapse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	timber	timber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	plummeted	plummet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | the Great Depression of the 1930s | a near collapse of the colony's economy |  |  |  | as British demand for timber | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition collapse=Patient |
| 2 | **plummet** | participle |  | timber *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **collapse** |  | the colony's economy |  |  |  |  |  | nom collapse «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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