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title: In 1990 and 2017, the leading causes of age-standardized death rates… — Suriname · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1990 and 2017, the leading causes of age-standardized death rates were cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes/chronic kidney disease. Who acts: leading causes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suriname» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Suriname, sentence 396

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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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In 1990 and 2017, the leading causes of age-standardized death rates were cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes/chronic kidney disease.

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**Who acts:** leading causes · **What happens:** lead, standardize, be, cause · **To what, where:** cardiovascular disease, 1990, standardized death rates

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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 (leading causes), 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:396
# text = In 1990 and 2017, the leading causes of age-standardized death rates were cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes/chronic kidney disease.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	causes	cause	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	standardized	standardize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
13	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	cardiovascular	cardiovascular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	cancer	cancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	diabetes/chronic	diabetes/chronic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	kidney	kidney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **standardize** | participle |  |  |  |  | age |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the leading causes of standardized death rates | cardiovascular disease and cancer and diabetes/chronic kidney disease |  | 1990 |  | cancer *conj*; diabetes/chronic kidney disease *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cause** |  |  | standardized death rates |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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