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title: Since 1995, the European Court of Justice may overrule Austrian deci… — Austria · tree and pragmatics
description: Since 1995, the European Court of Justice may overrule Austrian decisions in all matters defined in the laws of the European Union. Who acts: European Court, matters. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Austria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Austria, sentence 233

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From Wikipedia, [«Austria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria), 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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Since 1995, the European Court of Justice may overrule Austrian decisions in all matters defined in the laws of the European Union.

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**Who acts:** European Court, matters · **What happens:** overrule, define · **To what, where:** Austrian decisions, laws

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Austria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (European Court, matters), 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:Austria:233
# text = Since 1995, the European Court of Justice may overrule Austrian decisions in all matters defined in the laws of the European Union.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1995	1995	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Justice	Justice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	overrule	overrule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	Austrian	austrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	decisions	decision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	defined	define	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overrule** | may | the European Court of Justice | Austrian decisions |  |  | since 1995 |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **define** | past | all matters |  |  | the laws of the European Union |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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, «Austria», 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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