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title: Suriname has recently started exploiting some of its sizeable oil an… — Suriname · tree and pragmatics
description: Suriname has recently started exploiting some of its sizeable oil and gold reserves. Who acts: Suriname. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suriname» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Suriname, sentence 243

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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 recently started exploiting some of its sizeable oil and gold reserves.

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**Who acts:** Suriname · **What happens:** start, exploit · **To what, where:** some

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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), 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:243
# text = Suriname has recently started exploiting some of its sizeable oil and gold reserves.
1	Suriname	suriname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	exploiting	exploit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sizeable	sizeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	reserves	reserve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present · perfect | Suriname |  |  |  |  | recently *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **exploit** | gerund | Suriname *not said here* | some of shrimp's sizeable oil and gold reserves |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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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