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title: After independence about 1,500 British troops remained in Belize to… — Belize · tree and pragmatics
description: After independence about 1,500 British troops remained in Belize to deter any possible Guatemalan incursions. Who acts: 1,500 British troops. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belize» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belize, sentence 85

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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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After independence about 1,500 British troops remained in Belize to deter any possible Guatemalan incursions.

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**Who acts:** 1,500 British troops · **What happens:** remain, deter · **To what, where:** Belize, possible Guatemalan incursions

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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 (1,500 British troops), 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:85
# text = After independence about 1,500 British troops remained in Belize to deter any possible Guatemalan incursions.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	1,500	1,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	nsubj	_	_
7	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Belize	Belize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	deter	deter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
13	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Guatemalan	guatemalan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	incursions	incursion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | 1,500 British troops |  |  | Belize | after independence |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in belize=Location |
| 2 | **deter** | to-infinitive | 1,500 British troops *not said here* | any possible Guatemalan incursions |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer incursion=Eventuality |

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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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