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title: The Treaty of Breda in 1667 confirmed Paramaribo as the leading town… — Paramaribo · tree and pragmatics
description: The Treaty of Breda in 1667 confirmed Paramaribo as the leading town of the now Dutch colony of Suriname. Who acts: Treaty. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paramaribo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paramaribo, sentence 14

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From Wikipedia, [«Paramaribo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramaribo), 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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The Treaty of Breda in 1667 confirmed Paramaribo as the leading town of the now Dutch colony of Suriname.

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**Who acts:** Treaty · **What happens:** confirm, lead · **To what, where:** Paramaribo

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Paramaribo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:Paramaribo:14
# text = The Treaty of Breda in 1667 confirmed Paramaribo as the leading town of the now Dutch colony of Suriname.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Breda	Breda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1667	1667	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
7	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Paramaribo	Paramaribo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Suriname	Suriname	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confirm** | past | the Treaty of Breda in 1667 | Paramaribo |  |  |  | as the leading town of the Dutch colony of Suriname | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot paramaribo=Topic |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |

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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, «Paramaribo», 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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