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title: However, cross-dressing has been legal since 2018, when a ban was st… — Guyana · tree and pragmatics
description: However, cross-dressing has been legal since 2018, when a ban was struck down by Guyana's court of last resort, the Caribbean Court of Justice. Who acts: court. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guyana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guyana, sentence 165

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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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However, cross-dressing has been legal since 2018, when a ban was struck down by Guyana's court of last resort, the Caribbean Court of Justice.

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**Who acts:** court · **What happens:** cross-dress, be, strike down · **To what, where:** ban

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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 (court), 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:165
# text = However, cross-dressing has been legal since 2018, when a ban was struck down by Guyana's court of last resort, the Caribbean Court of Justice.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cross-dressing	cross-dress	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	since	since	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ban	ban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Guyana	Guyana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	resort	resort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Justice	Justice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross-dress** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  | since 2018 | however, legal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **strike down** | past · passive | Guyana's court of last resort | a ban |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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, «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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