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title: Guzmán was sure of victory this time, but his plan evaporated when i… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: Guzmán was sure of victory this time, but his plan evaporated when in his absence Carrera and his native allies occupied Quetzaltenango; Carrera appointed Ignacio Yrigoyen as Corregidor and convinced him that he should work with the K'iche', Q'anjobal and Mam leaders to keep the region under control
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# Guatemala, sentence 113

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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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Guzmán was sure of victory this time, but his plan evaporated when in his absence Carrera and his native allies occupied Quetzaltenango; Carrera appointed Ignacio Yrigoyen as Corregidor and convinced him that he should work with the K'iche', Q'anjobal and Mam leaders to keep the region under control.

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**Who acts:** Guzmán, plan, absence, Carrera · **What happens:** be, evaporate, occupy, appoint, convince, work · **To what, where:** Quetzaltenango, Ignacio, Guzmán, region, control

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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 (Guzmán, plan, absence, Carrera), 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:113
# text = Guzmán was sure of victory this time, but his plan evaporated when in his absence Carrera and his native allies occupied Quetzaltenango; Carrera appointed Ignacio Yrigoyen as Corregidor and convinced him that he should work with the K'iche', Q'anjobal and Mam leaders to keep the region under control.
1	Guzmán	Guzmán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	evaporated	evaporate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	Carrera	Carrera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	allies	ally	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
23	Quetzaltenango	Quetzaltenango	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Carrera	Carrera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	Ignacio	Ignacio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	Yrigoyen	Yrigoyen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Corregidor	Corregidor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	convinced	convince	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	ccomp	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	K'iche	K'iche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	',	',	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	Q'anjobal	Q'anjobal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	Mam	Mam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	under	under	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Guzmán |  |  |  | time | of victory; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **evaporate** | past | Guzmán's plan |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **occupy** | past | Guzmán's absence | Quetzaltenango |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus quetzaltenango=Experiencer |
| 4 | **appoint** | past | Carrera | Ignacio |  |  |  | as Corregidor | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ignacio=Theme as corregidor=Attribute |
| 5 | **convince** | past | Carrera *not said here* | Guzmán |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result |
| 6 | **work** | should | Guzmán |  |  |  |  | with the K'iche's Q'anjobal leaders | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with leader=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Guzmán *not said here* | the region |  | control |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent region=Theme under control=Location |
| 8 | **plan** |  | Guzmán |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **absent** |  | Guzmán |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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, «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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