--- title: In 1954, a U.S.-backed military coup ended the revolution and instal… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics description: In 1954, a U.S.-backed military coup ended the revolution and installed a dictatorship. Who acts: backed military coup. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guatemala/10/) [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/) / [Guatemala](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guatemala/) / 10 # Guatemala, sentence 10 From Wikipedia, [«Guatemala»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala), 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. In 1954, a U.S.-backed military coup ended the revolution and installed a dictatorship. **Who acts:** backed military coup · **What happens:** back, end, install · **To what, where:** revolution, 1954, dictatorship This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Guatemala». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (backed military coup), 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:Guatemala:10 # text = In 1954, a U.S.-backed military coup ended the revolution and installed a dictatorship. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1954 1954 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 5 U.S. U.S. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 backed back VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 8 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 coup coup NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 revolution revolution NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 installed install VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dictatorship dictatorship NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **back** | participle | | | | | | U.S. *compound* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **end** | past | a backed military coup | the revolution | | 1954 | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality revolution=Eventuality | | 3 | **install** | past | a backed military coup *not said here* | a dictatorship | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dictatorship=Theme | 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, «Guatemala», 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guatemala/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guatemala/11/) - ↑ back to [Guatemala](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guatemala/)