---
title: In January 2012 Efrain Rios Montt, the former dictator of Guatemala,… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: In January 2012 Efrain Rios Montt, the former dictator of Guatemala, appeared in a Guatemalan court on genocide charges. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guatemala/300/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Guatemala](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guatemala/) / 300

# Guatemala, sentence 300

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In January 2012 Efrain Rios Montt, the former dictator of Guatemala, appeared in a Guatemalan court on genocide charges.

<!-- .vintro -->
**What happens:** appear · **To what, where:** Guatemalan court

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:300
# text = In January 2012 Efrain Rios Montt, the former dictator of Guatemala, appeared in a Guatemalan court on genocide charges.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
3	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	Efrain	Efrain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	Rios	Rios	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	Montt	Montt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dictator	dictator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Guatemala	Guatemala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Guatemalan	Guatemalan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	genocide	genocide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	charges	charge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past |  |  |  | a Guatemalan court on genocide charges | january |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in court=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 299](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guatemala/299/)
- next →: [sentence 301](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guatemala/301/)
- ↑ back to [Guatemala](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guatemala/)