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title: On 1 July 1944 Ubico was forced to resign from the presidency in res… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: On 1 July 1944 Ubico was forced to resign from the presidency in response to a wave of protests and a general strike inspired by brutal labor conditions among plantation workers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guatemala, sentence 208

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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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On 1 July 1944 Ubico was forced to resign from the presidency in response to a wave of protests and a general strike inspired by brutal labor conditions among plantation workers.

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**What happens:** force, resign, inspire, wave · **To what, where:** presidency, general strike, protests

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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:208
# text = On 1 July 1944 Ubico was forced to resign from the presidency in response to a wave of protests and a general strike inspired by brutal labor conditions among plantation workers.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	1944	1944	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	Ubico	Ubico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	resign	resign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	presidency	presidency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
24	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	brutal	brutal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	among	among	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	plantation	plantation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | july |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: clause=Topic |
| 2 | **resign** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the presidency |  | in response to a wave of protests and a general strike | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from presidency=Source |
| 3 | **inspire** | participle |  | a general strike *not said here* |  |  |  | by brutal labor conditions among plantation workers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **wave** |  |  | protests |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event 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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