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title: North of the Rupununi River lies the Rupununi savannah, south of whi… — Guyana · tree and pragmatics
description: North of the Rupununi River lies the Rupununi savannah, south of which lie the Kanuku Mountains. Who acts: North. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guyana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guyana, sentence 71

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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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North of the Rupununi River lies the Rupununi savannah, south of which lie the Kanuku Mountains.

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**Who acts:** North · **What happens:** lie · **To what, where:** Rupununi savannah, Kanuku Mountains

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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 (North), 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:71
# text = North of the Rupununi River lies the Rupununi savannah, south of which lie the Kanuku Mountains.
1	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Rupununi	Rupununi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Rupununi	Rupununi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	savannah	Savannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	south	south	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Kanuku	Kanuku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | North of the Rupununi River | the Rupununi savannah |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location savannah=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | present |  | the Kanuku Mountains |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; south *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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