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title: After the initial rush to find gold in the New World waned, the Dutc… — Guyana · tree and pragmatics
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# Guyana, sentence 193

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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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After the initial rush to find gold in the New World waned, the Dutch found the climate to be suitable for growing sugar cane, converting large tracts of the Guyanese coast into plantations and supplying with labour from the Atlantic slave trade.

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**Who acts:** Dutch, climate · **What happens:** find, wane, be, grow, convert, supply · **To what, where:** climate, sugar cane, large tracts, plantations, Atlantic slave trade

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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 (Dutch, climate), 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:193
# text = After the initial rush to find gold in the New World waned, the Dutch found the climate to be suitable for growing sugar cane, converting large tracts of the Guyanese coast into plantations and supplying with labour from the Atlantic slave trade.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	initial	initial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	waned	wane	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Dutch	dutch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	converting	convert	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
28	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	tracts	tract	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Guyanese	guyanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	plantations	plantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	supplying	supply	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
43	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wane** | past |  |  |  |  | after rush gold in the New World |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | past | the Dutch | the climate |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climate=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | the climate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | suitable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** | gerund | the climate *not said here* | sugar cane |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cane=Theme |
| 6 | **convert** | gerund | the Dutch *not said here* | large tracts of the Guyanese coast |  |  |  | into plantations *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent tract=Patient into plantation=Result |
| 7 | **supply** | gerund | the Dutch *not said here* |  |  | the Atlantic slave trade |  | with labour | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with labour=Theme |

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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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