--- title: Ubico also froze wages at very low levels, and passed a law allowing… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics description: Ubico also froze wages at very low levels, and passed a law allowing land-owners complete immunity from prosecution for any action they took to defend their property, an action described by historians as legalizing murder. Who acts: Ubico, law, owners. 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Ubico also froze wages at very low levels, and passed a law allowing land-owners complete immunity from prosecution for any action they took to defend their property, an action described by historians as legalizing murder. **Who acts:** Ubico, law, owners · **What happens:** freeze, pass, allow, take, defend, describe · **To what, where:** wages, low levels, law, land owners, action, property 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 (Ubico, law, owners), 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:190 # text = Ubico also froze wages at very low levels, and passed a law allowing land-owners complete immunity from prosecution for any action they took to defend their property, an action described by historians as legalizing murder. 1 Ubico Ubico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 froze freeze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 wages wage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 levels level NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 allowing allow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 owners owner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 complete complete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 immunity immunity NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 prosecution prosecution NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 defend defend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 34 described describe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl:agent _ _ 37 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 legalizing legalize VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 39 murder murder NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **freeze** | past | Ubico | wages | | low levels | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient wage=Result | | 2 | **pass** | past | Ubico *not said here* | a law | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme law=Trajectory | | 3 | **allow** | gerund | a law *not said here* | land owners | | | | complete immunity *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent owner=Goal immunity=Theme | | 4 | **take** | past | owners *= owner* | any action *not said here* | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Theme | | 5 | **defend** | to-infinitive | owners *= owner* *not said here* | owners's property and a action | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Beneficiary | | 6 | **describe** | participle | | a action *not said here* | | | | historians *obl:agent* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **legalize** | gerund | | murder | | | | | tree rules | 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 189](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guatemala/189/) - next →: [sentence 191](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guatemala/191/) - ↑ back to [Guatemala](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guatemala/)