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title: Following the settlement, an exact border was demarcated by markers… — Guyana · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the settlement, an exact border was demarcated by markers and coordinates by a Venezuelan and British boundary commission in accordance with International law. Who acts: markers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guyana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guyana, sentence 136

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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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Following the settlement, an exact border was demarcated by markers and coordinates by a Venezuelan and British boundary commission in accordance with International law.

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**Who acts:** markers · **What happens:** follow, demarcate · **To what, where:** exact border

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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 (markers), 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:136
# text = Following the settlement, an exact border was demarcated by markers and coordinates by a Venezuelan and British boundary commission in accordance with International law.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	demarcated	demarcate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	markers	marker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	coordinates	coordinate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	Venezuelan	Venezuelan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	boundary	boundary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	commission	commission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	accordance	accordance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	International	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **demarcate** | past · passive | markers and coordinates | a exact border |  |  |  | follow the settlement; by a Venezuelan boundary commission in accordance with International law | 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, «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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