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title: The country has maintained its mostly unchanged constitution alongsi… — Australia · tree and pragmatics
description: The country has maintained its mostly unchanged constitution alongside a stable liberal democratic political system since Federation in 1901. Who acts: monarchy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Australia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Australia, sentence 209

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From Wikipedia, [«Australia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The country has maintained its mostly unchanged constitution alongside a stable liberal democratic political system since Federation in 1901.

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**Who acts:** monarchy · **What happens:** maintain, constitute · **To what, where:** country, 1901

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Australia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monarchy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Australia:209
# text = The country has maintained its mostly unchanged constitution alongside a stable liberal democratic political system since Federation in 1901.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	unchanged	unchanged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	alongside	alongside	ADP	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
11	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	liberal	liberal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	democratic	democratic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
16	since	since	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Federation	Federation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1901	1901	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maintain** | present · perfect · passive |  | the country |  | 1901 |  | monarchy's unchanged constitution *obj*; a stable liberal democratic political system since Federation *advcl* | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme constitution=Attribute |
| 2 | **constitute** |  | monarchy |  |  |  |  |  | nom constitution «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Australia», 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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