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title: German settlers are credited with bringing the tradition of Christma… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: German settlers are credited with bringing the tradition of Christmas trees to Guatemala. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guatemala, sentence 482

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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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German settlers are credited with bringing the tradition of Christmas trees to Guatemala.

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**What happens:** credit, bring · **To what, where:** German settlers, tradition

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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: 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:482
# text = German settlers are credited with bringing the tradition of Christmas trees to Guatemala.
1	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	credited	credit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Guatemala	Guatemala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **credit** | present · passive |  | German settlers |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **bring** | gerund |  | the tradition of Christmas trees to Guatemala |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tradition=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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