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title: In 1667, during negotiations leading to the Treaty of Breda after th… — Suriname · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1667, during negotiations leading to the Treaty of Breda after the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch decided to keep the nascent plantation colony of Surinam they had gained from the English. Who acts: negotiations, Dutch, Disputes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suriname» with its dependency tree an
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# Suriname, sentence 55

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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 1667, during negotiations leading to the Treaty of Breda after the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch decided to keep the nascent plantation colony of Surinam they had gained from the English.

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**Who acts:** negotiations, Dutch, Disputes · **What happens:** lead, decide, keep, gain · **To what, where:** 1667, nascent plantation colony, Surinam, English

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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 (negotiations, Dutch, Disputes), 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:55
# text = In 1667, during negotiations leading to the Treaty of Breda after the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch decided to keep the nascent plantation colony of Surinam they had gained from the English.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1667	1667	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	during	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	negotiations	negotiation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
6	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Breda	Breda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
14	Second	Second	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
15	Anglo	Anglo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Dutch	Dutch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nsubj	_	_
22	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	nascent	nascent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	plantation	plantation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Surinam	surinam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | gerund | negotiations after the Second Anglo War *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Treaty of Breda | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to treaty=Patient |
| 2 | **decide** | past | the Dutch |  |  | 1667 | during negotiations after the Second Anglo War |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Dutch *not said here* | the nascent plantation colony of Surinam |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Theme |
| 4 | **gain** | past · perfect | Disputes *= dispute* | Surinam *not said here* |  | the English |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent surinam=Theme from english=Source |

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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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