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title: Suriname is the only independent state outside Europe where Dutch is… — Suriname · tree and pragmatics
description: Suriname is the only independent state outside Europe where Dutch is the official and prevailing language of government, business, media, and education; an estimated 60% of the population speaks Dutch as a native language. Who acts: Suriname, Dutch. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suriname» with its depe
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# Suriname, sentence 15

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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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Suriname is the only independent state outside Europe where Dutch is the official and prevailing language of government, business, media, and education; an estimated 60% of the population speaks Dutch as a native language.

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**Who acts:** Suriname, Dutch · **What happens:** be, prevail, estimate, speak · **To what, where:** only independent state, official prevailing language · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Suriname, Dutch), 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:15
# text = Suriname is the only independent state outside Europe where Dutch is the official and prevailing language of government, business, media, and education; an estimated 60% of the population speaks Dutch as a native language.
1	Suriname	suriname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
10	Dutch	Dutch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	prevailing	prevail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	estimated	estimate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
29	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
35	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Suriname | the only independent state and education |  |  |  | outside Europe; education *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prevail** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Dutch | the official prevailing language |  |  |  | of government; business and media *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 4 | **estimate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  | as a native language; dutch *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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