Mozambique, sentence 219
From Wikipedia, «Mozambique», 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.
In July 2011, the government proposed new anti-corruption laws to criminalise embezzlement, influence peddling and graft, following numerous instances of the theft of public money.
Who acts: government · What happens: propose, criminalise, follow, instance · To what, where: new anti-corruption laws, embezzlement, numerous instances, theft
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mozambique». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (government), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 July | case |
| 2 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 proposed | obl |
| 3 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 July | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 July | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 government | det |
| 6 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 proposed | nsubj |
| 7 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 laws | amod |
| 9 | anti-corruption | anti-corruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laws | compound |
| 10 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 proposed | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 criminalise | mark |
| 12 | criminalise | criminalise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 proposed | advcl |
| 13 | embezzlement | embezzlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 criminalise | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 peddling | punct |
| 15 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 peddling | compound |
| 16 | peddling | peddling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 embezzlement | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 graft | cc |
| 18 | graft | graft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 embezzlement | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 following | punct |
| 20 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 proposed | advcl |
| 21 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 instances | amod |
| 22 | instances | instance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 following | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 theft | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 theft | det |
| 25 | theft | theft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 instances | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 money | case |
| 27 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 money | amod |
| 28 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 theft | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 proposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | past | the government | new anti-corruption laws | july | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme | |||
| 2 | criminalise | to-infinitive | the government not said here | embezzlement and influence peddling and graft | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | the government not said here | numerous instances of the theft of public money | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instance=Theme | ||||
| 4 | instance | the theft of public money | nom instance «event transitive»: of=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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