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title: By mid-year, the Netherlands tried Bouterse in absentia on drug-smug… — Suriname · tree and pragmatics
description: By mid-year, the Netherlands tried Bouterse in absentia on drug-smuggling charges. Who acts: Netherlands. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suriname» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Suriname, sentence 115

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From Wikipedia, [«Suriname»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriname), 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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By mid-year, the Netherlands tried Bouterse in absentia on drug-smuggling charges.

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**Who acts:** Netherlands · **What happens:** try · **To what, where:** Bouterse, absentia

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Suriname». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Netherlands), 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:Suriname:115
# text = By mid-year, the Netherlands tried Bouterse in absentia on drug-smuggling charges.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	mid-year	mid-year	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Bouterse	Bouterse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	absentia	absentia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	drug	drug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	smuggling	smuggling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	charges	charge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | the Netherlands | Bouterse |  | absentia |  | by mid-year; on smuggling charges | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bouterse=Eventuality |

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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, «Suriname», 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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