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title: In February 2023, there were heavy protests against rising living co… — Suriname · tree and pragmatics
description: In February 2023, there were heavy protests against rising living costs in the capital Paramaribo. Who acts: heavy protests. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suriname» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Suriname, sentence 126

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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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In February 2023, there were heavy protests against rising living costs in the capital Paramaribo.

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**Who acts:** heavy protests · **What happens:** be, rise · **To what, where:** living costs, capital

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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 (heavy protests), 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:126
# text = In February 2023, there were heavy protests against rising living costs in the capital Paramaribo.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
9	against	against	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	costs	cost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	Paramaribo	Paramaribo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | heavy protests |  |  | there | february |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund | heavy protests *not said here* | living costs |  | the capital |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cost=Theme |

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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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