--- title: They continued to enjoy autonomy after the colony was handed over to… — Suriname · tree and pragmatics description: They continued to enjoy autonomy after the colony was handed over to the Netherlands. Who acts: Jews. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suriname» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Suriname/51/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Suriname](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Suriname/) / 51 # Suriname, sentence 51 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. They continued to enjoy autonomy after the colony was handed over to the Netherlands. **Who acts:** Jews · **What happens:** continue, enjoy, hand over · **To what, where:** autonomy, colony, Netherlands 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 (Jews), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:51 # text = They continued to enjoy autonomy after the colony was handed over to the Netherlands. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 enjoy enjoy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 autonomy autonomy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 after after SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 colony colony NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 handed hand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 11 over over ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Netherlands Netherlands PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** | past | Jews *= jew* | | | | | | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive | Jews *= jew* *not said here* | autonomy | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer autonomy=Stimulus | | 3 | **hand over** | past · passive | | the colony | the Netherlands | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to netherlands=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Suriname/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Suriname/52/) - ↑ back to [Suriname](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Suriname/)