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title: Beginning in the 16th century, French, Spanish and English explorers… — Suriname · tree and pragmatics
description: Beginning in the 16th century, French, Spanish and English explorers visited the area. Who acts: French explorers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suriname» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Suriname, sentence 45

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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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Beginning in the 16th century, French, Spanish and English explorers visited the area.

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**Who acts:** French explorers · **What happens:** begin, visit · **To what, where:** area

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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 (French explorers), 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:45
# text = Beginning in the 16th century, French, Spanish and English explorers visited the area.
1	Beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	16th	16th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	explorers	explorer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | gerund | French explorers *not said here* |  |  |  | century |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **visit** | past | French explorers | the area |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Co-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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