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# Suriname, sentence 334

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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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This is a legacy of centuries of Dutch rule, which entailed successive periods of forced, contracted, or voluntary migration by various nationalities and ethnic groups from around the world.

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**Who acts:** This, Dutch rule, various nationalities · **What happens:** be, entail, force, contract, migrate · **To what, where:** legacy, successive periods

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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 (This, Dutch rule, various nationalities), 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:334
# text = This is a legacy of centuries of Dutch rule, which entailed successive periods of forced, contracted, or voluntary migration by various nationalities and ethnic groups from around the world.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	legacy	legacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	entailed	entail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	periods	period	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	contracted	contract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	voluntary	voluntary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	nationalities	nationality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	around	around	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | a legacy |  |  | century |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **entail** | past | Dutch rule | successive periods |  |  |  | voluntary migration by various nationalities from the world and ethnic groups *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **force** | participle |  | successive periods *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **contract** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **migrate** |  | various nationalities from the world and ethnic groups |  |  |  |  |  | nom migration «act intransitive»: by=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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