Bahrain, sentence 242
From Wikipedia, «Bahrain», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The appointed council "exercises a de facto veto" over the "rubber-stamp" elected, because draft acts must be approved so they may pass into law.
Who acts: appointed council, draft, constituencies · What happens: appoint, exercise, elect, act, approve, pass · To what, where: de facto veto, rubber stamp, law · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bahrain». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appointed council, draft, constituencies), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 council | det |
| 2 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 council | amod |
| 3 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exercises | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 council | punct |
| 5 | exercises | exercise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 veto | det |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 veto | compound |
| 8 | facto | facto | X | _ | 9 veto | compound |
| 9 | veto | veto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exercises | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 veto | punct |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 stamp | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stamp | det |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 stamp | punct |
| 14 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stamp | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 rubber | punct |
| 16 | stamp | stamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 approved | obl |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 stamp | punct |
| 18 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 stamp | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 acts | punct |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 acts | mark |
| 21 | draft | draft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 acts | nsubj |
| 22 | acts | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 elected | advcl |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 approved | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 approved | aux:pass |
| 25 | approved | approve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 exercises | parataxis |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 pass | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 pass | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 pass | aux |
| 29 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 approved | advcl |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 law | case |
| 31 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pass | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exercises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | exercise in a quote | present | the appointed council | a de facto veto | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | elect | participle | the rubber stamp not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | act | present | draft | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | approve | must · passive | the rubber stamp | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V» | |||||
| 6 | pass | may | constituencies = constituency | law | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into law=Initial_Location |
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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