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title: When the US declared war against Germany in 1941, Ubico acted on Ame… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: When the US declared war against Germany in 1941, Ubico acted on American instructions and arrested all people in Guatemala of German descent. Who acts: US, Ubico. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guatemala, sentence 202

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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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When the US declared war against Germany in 1941, Ubico acted on American instructions and arrested all people in Guatemala of German descent.

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**Who acts:** US, Ubico · **What happens:** declare, act, arrest · **To what, where:** war, 1941, American instructions, people, Guatemala

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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 (US, Ubico), 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:202
# text = When the US declared war against Germany in 1941, Ubico acted on American instructions and arrested all people in Guatemala of German descent.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1941	1941	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	Ubico	Ubico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	acted	act	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Guatemala	Guatemala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | the US | war |  | 1941 |  | against Germany | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute |
| 2 | **act** | past | Ubico |  |  | American instructions |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on instruction=Eventuality |
| 3 | **arrest** | past | Ubico *not said here* | all people of German descent |  | Guatemala |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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