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title: In 1898 the legislature convened for the election of President Estra… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1898 the legislature convened for the election of President Estrada Cabrera, who triumphed thanks to the large number of soldiers and policemen who went to vote in civilian clothes and to the large number of illiterate family that they brought with them to the polls. Who acts: legislature, police
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# Guatemala, sentence 164

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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 1898 the legislature convened for the election of President Estrada Cabrera, who triumphed thanks to the large number of soldiers and policemen who went to vote in civilian clothes and to the large number of illiterate family that they brought with them to the polls.

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**Who acts:** legislature, policemen, elections · **What happens:** convene, triumph, go, vote, bring, elect · **To what, where:** legislature, thanks, 1898, civilian clothes, polls, Estrada

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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 (legislature, policemen, elections), 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:164
# text = In 1898 the legislature convened for the election of President Estrada Cabrera, who triumphed thanks to the large number of soldiers and policemen who went to vote in civilian clothes and to the large number of illiterate family that they brought with them to the polls.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1898	1898	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	legislature	legislature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
5	convened	convene	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	Estrada	Estrada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	Cabrera	Cabrera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	triumphed	triumph	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	policemen	policeman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	civilian	civilian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	illiterate	illiterate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	polls	poll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **convene** | participle |  | the legislature *not said here* |  |  |  | for the election of Estrada  President | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **triumph** | past | the legislature | thanks |  | 1898 |  | to the large number of soldiers and policemen; who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | policemen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **vote** | to-infinitive | policemen *not said here* |  |  | civilian clothes and the large number of illiterate family |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bring** | past | elections *= election* |  |  | the polls |  | with clothes | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to poll=Destination |
| 6 | **elect** |  |  | Estrada  President |  |  |  |  | nom election «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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