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title: Amnesty's 2015/16 annual report on the country stated "... persecuti… — Azerbaijan · tree and pragmatics
description: Amnesty's 2015/16 annual report on the country stated "... persecution of political dissent continued. Who acts: 2015/16 annual report, persecution, Amnesty. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Azerbaijan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Azerbaijan, sentence 260

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From Wikipedia, [«Azerbaijan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan), 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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Amnesty's 2015/16 annual report on the country stated "... persecution of political dissent continued.

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**Who acts:** 2015/16 annual report, persecution, Amnesty · **What happens:** state, continue, report, persecute · **To what, where:** country, political dissent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Azerbaijan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (2015/16 annual report, persecution, Amnesty), 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:Azerbaijan:260
# text = Amnesty's 2015/16 annual report on the country stated "... persecution of political dissent continued.
1	Amnesty	Amnesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	2015/16	2015/16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	stated	state	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	persecution	persecution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dissent	dissent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | past | Amnesty's 2015/16 annual report on the country |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | persecution of political dissent |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **report** |  | Amnesty |  |  | the country |  |  | nom report «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
| 4 | **persecute** *in a quote* |  |  | political dissent |  |  |  |  | nom persecution «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, «Azerbaijan», 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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