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title: Tafelberg Mountain in the centre of the country is surrounded by its… — Suriname · tree and pragmatics
description: Tafelberg Mountain in the centre of the country is surrounded by its own reserve – the Tafelberg Nature Reserve – around the source of the Saramacca River, as is the Voltzberg Nature Reserve further north on the Coppename River at Raleighvallen. Who acts: own reserve. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suri
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# Suriname, sentence 275

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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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Tafelberg Mountain in the centre of the country is surrounded by its own reserve – the Tafelberg Nature Reserve – around the source of the Saramacca River, as is the Voltzberg Nature Reserve further north on the Coppename River at Raleighvallen.

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**Who acts:** own reserve · **What happens:** surround, be · **To what, where:** Tafelberg Mountain

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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 (own reserve), 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:275
# text = Tafelberg Mountain in the centre of the country is surrounded by its own reserve – the Tafelberg Nature Reserve – around the source of the Saramacca River, as is the Voltzberg Nature Reserve further north on the Coppename River at Raleighvallen.
1	Tafelberg	Tafelberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	reserve	reserve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	_
15	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Tafelberg	Tafelberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Nature	Nature	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Reserve	Reserve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	around	around	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Saramacca	Saramacca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	Voltzberg	Voltzberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	Nature	Nature	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Reserve	Reserve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	_
35	further	further	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	north	north	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	Coppename	Coppename	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Raleighvallen	Raleighvallen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | present · passive | country's own reserve  the Nature Reserve | Tafelberg Mountain in the centre of the country |  |  |  | the source of the Saramacca River *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as the Voltzberg Nature Reserve; north *property* | tree rules |

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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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