Venezuela, sentence 425
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.
In March 2017, the Venezuelan Supreme Court took over law-making powers from the National Assembly but reversed its decision the following day.
Who acts: Venezuelan Supreme Court, Court · What happens: take over, make, reverse, follow, decide · To what, where: powers, National Assembly, decision
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 (Venezuelan Supreme Court, Court), 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 March | case |
| 2 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 3 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 March | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 March | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Court | det |
| 6 | Venezuelan | Venezuelan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Court | compound |
| 7 | Supreme | Supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Court | amod |
| 8 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 took | compound:prt |
| 11 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 making | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 law | punct |
| 13 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 took | advcl |
| 14 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 making | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Assembly | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Assembly | det |
| 17 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Assembly | amod |
| 18 | Assembly | Assembly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 powers | nmod |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 reversed | cc |
| 20 | reversed | reverse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 decision | nmod:poss |
| 22 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reversed | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 24 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reversed | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take over | past | the Venezuelan Supreme Court | march | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | the Venezuelan Supreme Court not said here | powers | the National Assembly | law compound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset power=Product from assembly=Material | ||
| 3 | reverse | past | the Venezuelan Supreme Court not said here | Court's decision | day | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent decision=Patient | |||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | decide | Court | nom decision «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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