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title: The largely free and fair elections were won by Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: The largely free and fair elections were won by Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, Arévalo's defense minister. Who acts: Jacobo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guatemala, sentence 217

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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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The largely free and fair elections were won by Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, Arévalo's defense minister.

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**Who acts:** Jacobo · **What happens:** win · **To what, where:** free elections

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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 (Jacobo), 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:217
# text = The largely free and fair elections were won by Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, Arévalo's defense minister.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Jacobo	Jacobo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl:agent	_	_
11	Árbenz	Árbenz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	Guzmán	Guzmán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Arévalo	Arévalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	defense	defense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past · passive | Jacobo | the free elections |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |

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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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