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title: Henry refers to Anchuria as a "small maritime banana republic"; natu… — Honduras · tree and pragmatics
description: Henry refers to Anchuria as a "small maritime banana republic"; naturally, the fruit was the entire basis of its economy. Who acts: Henry, fruit. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Honduras» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Honduras, sentence 79

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From Wikipedia, [«Honduras»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduras), 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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Henry refers to Anchuria as a "small maritime banana republic"; naturally, the fruit was the entire basis of its economy.

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**Who acts:** Henry, fruit · **What happens:** refer, be · **To what, where:** small maritime banana republic, Anchuria, entire basis

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Honduras». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Henry, fruit), 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:Honduras:79
# text = Henry refers to Anchuria as a "small maritime banana republic"; naturally, the fruit was the entire basis of its economy.
1	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Anchuria	Anchuria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	maritime	maritime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present | Henry | a small maritime banana republic | Anchuria |  |  | naturally *property* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to anchuria=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the fruit | the entire basis |  |  |  | of fruit's economy | 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, «Honduras», 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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