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title: The government has instituted a policy of providing altars at every… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: The government has instituted a policy of providing altars at every Maya ruin to facilitate traditional ceremonies. Who acts: government, policy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guatemala, sentence 514

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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 government has instituted a policy of providing altars at every Maya ruin to facilitate traditional ceremonies.

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**Who acts:** government, policy · **What happens:** institute, provide, facilitate · **To what, where:** policy, altars, Maya ruin, traditional ceremonies

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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 (government, policy), 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:514
# text = The government has instituted a policy of providing altars at every Maya ruin to facilitate traditional ceremonies.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	instituted	institute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	providing	provide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	altars	altar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	Maya	Maya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	facilitate	facilitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **institute** | present · perfect | the government | a policy |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent policy=Patient |
| 2 | **provide** | gerund | a policy *not said here* | altars |  | every Maya ruin |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition altar=Theme |
| 3 | **facilitate** | to-infinitive | a policy *not said here* | traditional ceremonies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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