Venezuela, sentence 236

From Wikipedia, «Venezuela», 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.

Commentators noted that under the U.S. Constitution, statehood cannot be unilaterally declared by the president and would require congressional approval as well as the consent of Venezuela.

Who acts: Commentators, president · What happens: note, not declare, require, consent · To what, where: statehood, congressional approval, Venezuela

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Venezuela». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Commentators, president), 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	Commentators	commentator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 noted	nsubj
2	noted	note	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 Constitution	mark
4	under	under	ADP	_	7 Constitution	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Constitution	det
6	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Constitution	compound
7	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 noted	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 declared	punct
9	statehood	statehood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 declared	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 declared	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 declared	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 declared	aux:pass
13	unilaterally	unilaterally	ADV	_	14 declared	advmod
14	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 noted	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 president	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 president	det
17	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 declared	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 require	cc
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 require	aux
20	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 declared	conj
21	congressional	congressional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 approval	amod
22	approval	approval	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 require	obj
23	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	20 require	advmod
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 as	fixed
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 consent	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 consent	det
27	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 require	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Venezuela	case
29	Venezuela	Venezuela	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 consent	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 noted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	note	past	Commentators		the U.S. Constitution ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not declare speech: other	can · passive	the president	statehood	unilaterally property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute
3	require	would	the president not said here	congressional approval	as the consent of Venezuela	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme approval=Precondition
4	consent			Venezuela		nom consent «communication 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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Venezuela», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Pragmatics

Venezuela, sentence 236