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title: There is a conflict between Guyana and Venezuela concerning the Esse… — Guyana · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a conflict between Guyana and Venezuela concerning the Essequibo region: the Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute. Who acts: conflict. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guyana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guyana, sentence 123

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From Wikipedia, [«Guyana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana), 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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There is a conflict between Guyana and Venezuela concerning the Essequibo region: the Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute.

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**Who acts:** conflict · **What happens:** be, concern · **To what, where:** Essequibo region

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Guyana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conflict), 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:Guyana:123
# text = There is a conflict between Guyana and Venezuela concerning the Essequibo region: the Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Guyana	Guyana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Venezuela	Venezuela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Essequibo	Essequibo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Guyana	Guyana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Venezuela	Venezuela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	territorial	territorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a conflict between Guyana and Venezuela |  |  | there |  | the Guyana *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | a conflict between Guyana and Venezuela *not said here* | the Essequibo region |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus region=Experiencer |

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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, «Guyana», 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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