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title: The largest tribes were the Lokono, a nomadic coastal tribe that sub… — Suriname · tree and pragmatics
description: The largest tribes were the Lokono, a nomadic coastal tribe that subsisted on hunting, foraging and fishing. Who acts: largest tribes, nomadic coastal tribe. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suriname» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Suriname, sentence 40

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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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The largest tribes were the Lokono, a nomadic coastal tribe that subsisted on hunting, foraging and fishing.

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**Who acts:** largest tribes, nomadic coastal tribe · **What happens:** be, subsist, forage · **To what, where:** Lokono

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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 (largest tribes, nomadic coastal tribe), 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:40
# text = The largest tribes were the Lokono, a nomadic coastal tribe that subsisted on hunting, foraging and fishing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Lokono	Lokono	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	nomadic	nomadic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	subsisted	subsist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	foraging	forage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the largest tribes | the Lokono |  |  |  | a nomadic coastal tribe *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **subsist** | past | a nomadic coastal tribe |  |  |  |  | on hunting | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on hunting=Patient |
| 3 | **forage** | gerund | a nomadic coastal tribe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fishing *conj* | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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