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title: In May 2008, President Bharrat Jagdeo was a signatory to the UNASUR… — Guyana · tree and pragmatics
description: In May 2008, President Bharrat Jagdeo was a signatory to the UNASUR Constitutive Treaty of the Union of South American Nations. Who acts: Bharrat. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guyana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guyana, sentence 56

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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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In May 2008, President Bharrat Jagdeo was a signatory to the UNASUR Constitutive Treaty of the Union of South American Nations.

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**Who acts:** Bharrat · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** signatory

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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 (Bharrat), 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:56
# text = In May 2008, President Bharrat Jagdeo was a signatory to the UNASUR Constitutive Treaty of the Union of South American Nations.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Bharrat	Bharrat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	Jagdeo	Jagdeo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	signatory	signatory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	UNASUR	UNASUR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Constitutive	Constitutive	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bharrat  President | a signatory |  |  | may | to the Constitutive Treaty of the Union of South American Nations | 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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