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title: They had significant influence, now somewhat lessened, but extrajudi… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: They had significant influence, now somewhat lessened, but extrajudicial killings continue. Who acts: killings, extrajudicial killings. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guatemala, sentence 426

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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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They had significant influence, now somewhat lessened, but extrajudicial killings continue.

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**Who acts:** killings, extrajudicial killings · **What happens:** have, lessen, continue · **To what, where:** significant influence

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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 (killings, extrajudicial killings), 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:426
# text = They had significant influence, now somewhat lessened, but extrajudicial killings continue.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
7	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	lessened	lessen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	extrajudicial	extrajudicial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	killings	killing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	continue	continue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | killings *= killing* | significant influence |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Patient |
| 2 | **lessen** | participle | killings *= killing* *not said here* |  |  |  | now | somewhat *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **continue** | present | extrajudicial killings |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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