Laos, sentence 152
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 people's governments at the provincial, district, and village levels are elected by the people's councils and are accountable to them, and to the government as the supreme executive and administrative organ of state power.
Who acts: councils · What happens: elect, be · To what, where: village levels, levels, governments
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 (councils), 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 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 governments | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 people | case |
| 4 | governments | government | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 provincial | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 provincial | det |
| 7 | provincial | provincial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 governments | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 district | punct |
| 9 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 provincial | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 elected | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 elected | cc |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 levels | compound |
| 13 | levels | level | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 elected | aux:pass |
| 15 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 governments | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 councils | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 councils | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 people | case |
| 20 | councils | council | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 elected | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 accountable | cc |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 accountable | cop |
| 23 | accountable | accountable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 elected | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 accountable | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 government | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 government | cc |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 government | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 government | det |
| 30 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 elected | parataxis |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 organ | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 organ | det |
| 33 | supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 organ | amod |
| 34 | executive | executive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 organ | amod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 administrative | cc |
| 36 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 executive | conj |
| 37 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 government | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 power | case |
| 39 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 power | compound |
| 40 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 organ | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 governments | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elect | present · passive | the people's councils | village levels | the government as the supreme executive organ of state power parataxis | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | the people's councils not said here | levels = level | accountable property | tree rules |
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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