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title: In the mid 19th century and early 20th century Guatemala received wa… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: In the mid 19th century and early 20th century Guatemala received waves of immigration from Europe, primarily from Germany. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guatemala, sentence 516

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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 the mid 19th century and early 20th century Guatemala received waves of immigration from Europe, primarily from Germany.

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**What happens:** receive, wave · **To what, where:** waves, Europe, immigration

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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:516
# text = In the mid 19th century and early 20th century Guatemala received waves of immigration from Europe, primarily from Germany.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	Guatemala	Guatemala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	immigration	immigration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past |  | waves of immigration |  | Europe | century | primarily *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wave=Theme from europe=Source |
| 2 | **wave** |  |  | immigration |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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