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title: Bernardo Arévalo is the son of the former president Juan José Aréval… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: Bernardo Arévalo is the son of the former president Juan José Arévalo, who was the first democratically chosen president of Guatemala. Who acts: Bernardo, son. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guatemala, sentence 369

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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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Bernardo Arévalo is the son of the former president Juan José Arévalo, who was the first democratically chosen president of Guatemala.

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**Who acts:** Bernardo, son · **What happens:** be, choose · **To what, where:** son, president

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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 (Bernardo, son), 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:369
# text = Bernardo Arévalo is the son of the former president Juan José Arévalo, who was the first democratically chosen president of Guatemala.
1	Bernardo	Bernardo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Arévalo	Arévalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Juan	Juan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	José	José	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	Arévalo	Arévalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	parataxis	_	_
18	democratically	democratically	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
20	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Guatemala	Guatemala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Bernardo | the son |  |  |  | of Juan José  the former president | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the son |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **choose** | participle | the son *not said here* | president of Guatemala |  |  |  | democratically *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=Theme |

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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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