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title: To the south, the dissected Guiana Highlands contain the northern fr… — Venezuela · tree and pragmatics
description: To the south, the dissected Guiana Highlands contain the northern fringes of the Amazon Basin and Angel Falls, the world's highest waterfall, as well as tepuis, large table-like mountains. Who acts: dissected Guiana Highlands. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Venezuela» with its dependency tree and pragma
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# Venezuela, sentence 247

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From Wikipedia, [«Venezuela»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela), 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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To the south, the dissected Guiana Highlands contain the northern fringes of the Amazon Basin and Angel Falls, the world's highest waterfall, as well as tepuis, large table-like mountains.

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**Who acts:** dissected Guiana Highlands · **What happens:** dissect, contain · **To what, where:** northern fringes

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Venezuela». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dissected Guiana Highlands), 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:Venezuela:247
# text = To the south, the dissected Guiana Highlands contain the northern fringes of the Amazon Basin and Angel Falls, the world's highest waterfall, as well as tepuis, large table-like mountains.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	dissected	dissect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	Guiana	Guiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Highlands	highland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fringes	fringe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Basin	Basin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Angel	Angel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Falls	Falls	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	waterfall	waterfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	30	cc	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	fixed	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
30	tepuis	tepuis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
33	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **dissect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **contain** | present | the dissected Guiana Highlands | the northern fringes of the Amazon Basin and Angel Falls and large like mountains |  |  |  | to the south | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fringe=Theme |

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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, «Venezuela», 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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