---
title: The Demerara River is navigable by oceangoing vessels up to roughly… — Georgetown, Guyana · tree and pragmatics
description: The Demerara River is navigable by oceangoing vessels up to roughly 100 km upriver. Who acts: Demerara River. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Georgetown, Guyana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Georgetown,_Guyana/42/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Georgetown, Guyana](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Georgetown,_Guyana/) / 42

# Georgetown, Guyana, sentence 42

<!-- div src -->

From Wikipedia, [«Georgetown, Guyana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown,_Guyana), 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Demerara River is navigable by oceangoing vessels up to roughly 100 km upriver.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Demerara River · **What happens:** be

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Georgetown, Guyana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Demerara River), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:Georgetown,_Guyana:42
# text = The Demerara River is navigable by oceangoing vessels up to roughly 100 km upriver.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Demerara	Demerara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	navigable	navigable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	oceangoing	oceangoing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	upriver	upriver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Demerara River |  |  |  |  | by oceangoing vessels up km upriver; navigable *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Georgetown, Guyana», 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Georgetown,_Guyana/41/)
- next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Georgetown,_Guyana/43/)
- ↑ back to [Georgetown, Guyana](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Georgetown,_Guyana/)