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title: The attorney general's office released its own statement, calling fo… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: The attorney general's office released its own statement, calling for the president's resignation "to prevent ungovernability that could destabilize the nation". Who acts: attorney, ungovernability, office, president. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guatemala, sentence 347

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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 attorney general's office released its own statement, calling for the president's resignation "to prevent ungovernability that could destabilize the nation".

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**Who acts:** attorney, ungovernability, office, president · **What happens:** release, call, prevent, destabilize, state, resign · **To what, where:** own statement, ungovernability, nation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (attorney, ungovernability, office, president), 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:347
# text = The attorney general's office released its own statement, calling for the president's resignation "to prevent ungovernability that could destabilize the nation".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	attorney	attorney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	general	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	released	release	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	resignation	resignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
20	ungovernability	ungovernability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	destabilize	destabilize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **release** | past | the attorney | office's own statement |  |  |  | general's office *nsubj* | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer statement=Source |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | gerund | the attorney *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the president's resignation | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for resignation=Recipient |
| 3 | **prevent** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the attorney *not said here* | ungovernability |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer ungovernability=Theme |
| 4 | **destabilize** *in a quote* | could | ungovernability | the nation |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nation=Patient |
| 5 | **state** |  | office |  |  |  |  |  | nom statement «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **resign** |  | the president |  |  |  |  |  | nom resignation «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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