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title: In return the English kept New Amsterdam, the main city of the forme… — Suriname · tree and pragmatics
description: In return the English kept New Amsterdam, the main city of the former colony of New Netherland in North America on the mid-Atlantic coast. Who acts: English. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suriname» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Suriname, sentence 56

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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 return the English kept New Amsterdam, the main city of the former colony of New Netherland in North America on the mid-Atlantic coast.

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**Who acts:** English · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** New Amsterdam, return

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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 (English), 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:56
# text = In return the English kept New Amsterdam, the main city of the former colony of New Netherland in North America on the mid-Atlantic coast.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Netherland	Netherland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	mid-Atlantic	mid-atlantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the English | New Amsterdam |  | return |  | on the mid-Atlantic coast | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent amsterdam=Theme in return=Location |

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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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