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title: In his first few days in office, Arévalo reversed a government agree… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: In his first few days in office, Arévalo reversed a government agreement signed by his predecessor that would have granted security and vehicles to former officials from the Giammattei cabinet for six years. Who acts: Arévalo, former officials. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala» with its dependen
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# Guatemala, sentence 373

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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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In his first few days in office, Arévalo reversed a government agreement signed by his predecessor that would have granted security and vehicles to former officials from the Giammattei cabinet for six years.

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**Who acts:** Arévalo, former officials · **What happens:** reverse, sign, grant · **To what, where:** government agreement, predecessor

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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 (Arévalo, former officials), 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:373
# text = In his first few days in office, Arévalo reversed a government agreement signed by his predecessor that would have granted security and vehicles to former officials from the Giammattei cabinet for six years.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	Arévalo	Arévalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	reversed	reverse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	signed	sign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	predecessor	predecessor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	vehicles	vehicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:agent	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Giammattei	Giammattei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reverse** | past | Arévalo | a government agreement |  |  | day |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent agreement=Patient |
| 2 | **sign** | participle |  | a government agreement *not said here* |  |  |  | by Arévalo's predecessor | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent by predecessor=Destination |
| 3 | **grant** | would · perfect · passive | former officials from the Giammattei cabinet | Arévalo's predecessor |  |  | year | security and vehicles *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent subject=Goal security=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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