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title: The executive branch of the Commonwealth government has overall cont… — Australia · tree and pragmatics
description: The executive branch of the Commonwealth government has overall control of the military through the minister of defence, who is subject to the decisions of Cabinet and its National Security Committee. Who acts: executive branch, defence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Australia» with its dependency tree
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# Australia, sentence 272

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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 executive branch of the Commonwealth government has overall control of the military through the minister of defence, who is subject to the decisions of Cabinet and its National Security Committee.

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**Who acts:** executive branch, defence · **What happens:** have, be, decide · **To what, where:** overall control, minister, Cabinet

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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 (executive branch, defence), 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:272
# text = The executive branch of the Commonwealth government has overall control of the military through the minister of defence, who is subject to the decisions of Cabinet and its National Security Committee.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	executive	executive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	overall	overall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	subject	subject	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	decisions	decision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Cabinet	Cabinet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	Security	Security	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Committee	Committee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the executive branch of the Commonwealth government | overall control of the military |  | the minister of defence |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | defence |  |  |  |  | to the decisions of Cabinet and decision's National Security Committee; subject *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **decide** |  |  | Cabinet and decision's National Security Committee |  |  |  |  | nom decision «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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