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title: Suriname has been a member of The Forum of Small States (FOSS) since… — Suriname · tree and pragmatics
description: Suriname has been a member of The Forum of Small States (FOSS) since the group's founding in 1992. Who acts: Suriname, group. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suriname» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Suriname, sentence 196

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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 has been a member of The Forum of Small States (FOSS) since the group's founding in 1992.

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**Who acts:** Suriname, group · **What happens:** be, found · **To what, where:** member

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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, group), 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:196
# text = Suriname has been a member of The Forum of Small States (FOSS) since the group's founding in 1992.
1	Suriname	suriname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Forum	Forum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	FOSS	foss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	since	since	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	founding	founding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1992	1992	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · perfect | Suriname | a member |  |  | since the group's founding in 1992 | of the Forum of Small States | tree rules |
| 2 | **found** |  | the group |  |  |  |  |  | nom founding «act transitive»: poss=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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