--- title: Slightly more than half of the population claimed to be moreno, a te… — Venezuela · tree and pragmatics description: Slightly more than half of the population claimed to be moreno, a term used throughout Ibero-America that in this case means "dark-skinned" or "brown-skinned", as opposed to having a lighter skin. Who acts: half, that. 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Slightly more than half of the population claimed to be moreno, a term used throughout Ibero-America that in this case means "dark-skinned" or "brown-skinned", as opposed to having a lighter skin. **Who acts:** half, that · **What happens:** claim, be, use, mean, oppose, have · **To what, where:** moreno, term, lighter skin 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 (half, that), 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:Venezuela:568 # text = Slightly more than half of the population claimed to be moreno, a term used throughout Ibero-America that in this case means "dark-skinned" or "brown-skinned", as opposed to having a lighter skin. 1 Slightly slightly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 4 advmod _ _ 3 than than ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 8 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 claimed claim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 moreno moreno NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 15 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 throughout throughout ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 Ibero Ibero PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl:agent _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 24 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 skinned skinned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 skinned skinned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 opposed oppose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 39 to to SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 43 amod _ _ 43 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | half of the population | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | moreno | | | | a term *appos* | tree rules | | 3 | **use** | participle | | a term *not said here* | | | | Ibero America *obl:agent* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | that | | | | | in this case | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in case=Attribute | | 5 | **oppose** | participle | that *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **have** | gerund | that *not said here* | a lighter skin | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 567](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Venezuela/567/) - next →: [sentence 569](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Venezuela/569/) - ↑ back to [Venezuela](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Venezuela/)