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title: In the 1950s, the National Union Committee, formed by reformists fol… — Bahrain · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1950s, the National Union Committee, formed by reformists following sectarian clashes, demanded an elected popular assembly, removal of Belgrave and carried out a number of protests and general strikes. Who acts: reformists. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bahrain» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Bahrain, sentence 146

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From Wikipedia, [«Bahrain»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahrain), 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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In the 1950s, the National Union Committee, formed by reformists following sectarian clashes, demanded an elected popular assembly, removal of Belgrave and carried out a number of protests and general strikes.

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**Who acts:** reformists · **What happens:** form, follow, demand, elect, carry out, remove · **To what, where:** Union Committee, sectarian clashes, elected popular assembly, 1950s, number, Belgrave

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bahrain». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reformists), 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:Bahrain:146
# text = In the 1950s, the National Union Committee, formed by reformists following sectarian clashes, demanded an elected popular assembly, removal of Belgrave and carried out a number of protests and general strikes.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1950s	1950	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Committee	Committee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	reformists	reformist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	sectarian	sectarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	clashes	clash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
20	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	removal	removal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Belgrave	Belgrave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	strikes	strike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | participle |  | the Union Committee *not said here* |  |  |  | by reformists | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by reformist=Location |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | reformists *not said here* | sectarian clashes |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clash=Theme |
| 3 | **demand** *speech: request* | past |  | a elected popular assembly and removal of Belgrave |  | the 1950s |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme assembly=Precondition |
| 4 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **carry out** | past |  | a number of protests and general strikes |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Eventuality |
| 6 | **remove** |  |  | Belgrave |  |  |  |  | nom removal «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, «Bahrain», 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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