Laos, sentence 140
From Wikipedia, «Laos», 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 president is bound by a term limit of two consecutive electoral terms.
Who acts: term limit · What happens: bind · To what, where: president
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Laos». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (term limit), 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 | 2 president | det |
| 2 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bound | aux:pass |
| 4 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 limit | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 limit | det |
| 7 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 limit | compound |
| 8 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bound | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 terms | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 terms | nummod |
| 11 | consecutive | consecutive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 terms | amod |
| 12 | electoral | electoral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 terms | amod |
| 13 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 limit | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | present · passive | a term limit of two consecutive electoral terms | the president | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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.
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