Panama, sentence 128
From Wikipedia, «Panama», 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.
Despite the 1983 constitutional amendments which proscribed a political role for the military, the Panama Defense Force (PDF), as they were then known, continued to dominate Panamanian political life.
What happens: proscribe, know, continue · To what, where: political role, deaths, dominate Panamanian political life
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Panama». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Despite | despite | ADP | _ | 5 amendments | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 amendments | det |
| 3 | 1983 | 1983 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 amendments | nummod |
| 4 | constitutional | constitutional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 amendments | amod |
| 5 | amendments | amendment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 proscribed | obl |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 proscribed | nsubj |
| 7 | proscribed | proscribe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 role | det |
| 9 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 role | amod |
| 10 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 proscribed | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 military | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 military | det |
| 13 | military | military | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 role | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Force | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Force | det |
| 16 | Panama | Panama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Defense | compound |
| 17 | Defense | Defense | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Force | compound |
| 18 | Force | Force | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 role | nmod |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 PDF | punct |
| 20 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Force | appos | ||
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 PDF | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 known | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 known | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 known | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 known | aux:pass |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 known | advmod |
| 27 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 proscribed | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 continued | punct |
| 29 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 known | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 life | case |
| 31 | dominate | dominant | ADJ | Degree=Pos Typo=Yes | 34 life | amod |
| 32 | Panamanian | Panamanian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 life | compound |
| 33 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 life | amod |
| 34 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 continued | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 proscribed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proscribe | past | a political role the Defense Force | despite the 1983 constitutional amendments; for the military; which nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past · passive | deaths = death | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | continue | participle | dominate Panamanian political life | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=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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