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title: On 5 September 1848, the criollos altenses chose a formal government… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: On 5 September 1848, the criollos altenses chose a formal government led by Fernando Antonio Martínez. Who acts: criollos altenses. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guatemala, sentence 102

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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.

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On 5 September 1848, the criollos altenses chose a formal government led by Fernando Antonio Martínez.

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**Who acts:** criollos altenses · **What happens:** choose, lead · **To what, where:** formal government, 5

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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 (criollos altenses), 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:Guatemala:102
# text = On 5 September 1848, the criollos altenses chose a formal government led by Fernando Antonio Martínez.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
3	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1848	1848	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	criollos	criollo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	altenses	altens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Fernando	Fernando	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Antonio	Antonio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl:agent	_	_
17	Martínez	Martínez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | criollos altenses | a formal government |  | 5  1848  September |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | participle |  | a formal government *not said here* |  |  |  | Fernando Antonio *obl:agent* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |

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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, «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.

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