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title: After France invaded the Dutch Republic (1795), the British assumed… — Guyana · tree and pragmatics
description: After France invaded the Dutch Republic (1795), the British assumed control in 1796, with the Dutch and British signing the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 in London that ceded Demerara-Essequibo and Berbice to Britain. Who acts: France, Dutch Treaty. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guyana» with its dependenc
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# Guyana, sentence 35

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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 France invaded the Dutch Republic (1795), the British assumed control in 1796, with the Dutch and British signing the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 in London that ceded Demerara-Essequibo and Berbice to Britain.

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**Who acts:** France, Dutch Treaty · **What happens:** invade, assume, sign, cede · **To what, where:** Dutch Republic, Dutch Treaty, London, Demerara, Britain

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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 (France, Dutch Treaty), 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:35
# text = After France invaded the Dutch Republic (1795), the British assumed control in 1796, with the Dutch and British signing the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 in London that ceded Demerara-Essequibo and Berbice to Britain.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	invaded	invade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	1795	1795	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	assumed	assume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1796	1796	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	signing	sign	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	Anglo	Anglo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Dutch	Dutch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	1814	1814	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	ceded	cede	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
35	Demerara	Demerara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Essequibo	Essequibo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	Berbice	Berbice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invade** | past | France | the Dutch Republic |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **assume** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sign** | gerund | France *not said here* | the Dutch Treaty of 1814 |  | London |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent treaty=Theme in london=Destination |
| 4 | **cede** | past | the Dutch Treaty of 1814 | Demerara and Berbice | Britain |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent demerara=Theme to britain=Goal |

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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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