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title: Certain foods are also commonly eaten on certain days of the week; f… — Guatemala · tree and pragmatics
description: Certain foods are also commonly eaten on certain days of the week; for example, a popular custom is to eat paches (a kind of tamale made from potatoes) on Thursday. Who acts: popular custom. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guatemala» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guatemala, sentence 587

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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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Certain foods are also commonly eaten on certain days of the week; for example, a popular custom is to eat paches (a kind of tamale made from potatoes) on Thursday.

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**Who acts:** popular custom · **What happens:** eat, be, make · **To what, where:** Certain foods, tamale, potatoes

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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 (popular custom), 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:587
# text = Certain foods are also commonly eaten on certain days of the week; for example, a popular custom is to eat paches (a kind of tamale made from potatoes) on Thursday.
1	Certain	certain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
23	paches	pach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	tamale	tamale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present · passive |  | Certain foods |  |  | day | commonly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | a popular custom |  |  |  | thursday | for example; paches *obj*; eat *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | tamale *not said here* |  | potatoes |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from potato=Material |

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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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