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title: In 1854 Carrera was declared "supreme and perpetual leader of the na… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1854 Carrera was declared "supreme and perpetual leader of the nation" for life, with the power to choose his successor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guatemala, sentence 124

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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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In 1854 Carrera was declared "supreme and perpetual leader of the nation" for life, with the power to choose his successor.

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**What happens:** declare, choose · **To what, where:** Carrera, 1854, successor

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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: 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:124
# text = In 1854 Carrera was declared "supreme and perpetual leader of the nation" for life, with the power to choose his successor.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1854	1854	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	Carrera	Carrera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	supreme	supreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	perpetual	perpetual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	successor	successor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | Carrera |  | 1854 |  | for life; with the power; supreme leader of the nation *xcomp* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **choose** | to-infinitive |  | leader's successor |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent successor=Theme |

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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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