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title: New Year's Eve in Suriname is called Oud jaar, Owru Yari, or "old ye… — Suriname · tree and pragmatics
description: New Year's Eve in Suriname is called Oud jaar, Owru Yari, or "old year". A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suriname» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Suriname, sentence 407

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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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New Year's Eve in Suriname is called Oud jaar, Owru Yari, or "old year".

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**What happens:** call · **To what, where:** old year · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:407
# text = New Year's Eve in Suriname is called Oud jaar, Owru Yari, or "old year".
1	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Suriname	Suriname	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	Oud	Oud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
10	jaar	jaar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Owru	Owru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	Yari	Yari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | old year |  |  | 's New Year in Suriname | Oud and Owru *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |

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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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