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title: In the past decades a significant number of Brazilians, Guyanese and… — Paramaribo · tree and pragmatics
description: In the past decades a significant number of Brazilians, Guyanese and new Chinese immigrants have settled in Paramaribo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paramaribo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paramaribo, sentence 35

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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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In the past decades a significant number of Brazilians, Guyanese and new Chinese immigrants have settled in Paramaribo.

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**What happens:** settle · **To what, where:** significant number, 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: 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:35
# text = In the past decades a significant number of Brazilians, Guyanese and new Chinese immigrants have settled in Paramaribo.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Brazilians	Brazilian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Guyanese	Guyanese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Paramaribo	Paramaribo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | present · perfect · passive |  | a significant number of Brazilians and Guyanese and new Chinese immigrants |  | Paramaribo | decade |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in paramaribo=Location |

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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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