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title: Before his election in 2010, he, along with 24 others, had been char… — Suriname · tree and pragmatics
description: Before his election in 2010, he, along with 24 others, had been charged with the murders of 15 prominent dissidents in the December murders. Who acts: Bouterse. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suriname» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Suriname, sentence 119

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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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Before his election in 2010, he, along with 24 others, had been charged with the murders of 15 prominent dissidents in the December murders.

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**Who acts:** Bouterse · **What happens:** charge, elect, murder · **To what, where:** Bouterse, 15 prominent dissidents

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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 (Bouterse), 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:119
# text = Before his election in 2010, he, along with 24 others, had been charged with the murders of 15 prominent dissidents in the December murders.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	murders	murder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	dissidents	dissident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	murders	murder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | past · perfect · passive |  | Bouterse |  |  | before Bouterse's election in 2010 | with the murders of 15 prominent dissidents in the December murders | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with murder=Theme |
| 2 | **elect** |  | Bouterse |  |  |  |  |  | nom election «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 3 | **murder** |  |  | 15 prominent dissidents in the December murders |  |  |  |  | nom murder «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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