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title: The appointed council "exercises a de facto veto" over the "rubber-s… — Bahrain · tree and pragmatics
description: The appointed council "exercises a de facto veto" over the "rubber-stamp" elected, because draft acts must be approved so they may pass into law. Who acts: appointed council, draft, constituencies. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bahrain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bahrain, sentence 242

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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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The appointed council "exercises a de facto veto" over the "rubber-stamp" elected, because draft acts must be approved so they may pass into law.

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**Who acts:** appointed council, draft, constituencies · **What happens:** appoint, exercise, elect, act, approve, pass · **To what, where:** de facto veto, rubber stamp, law · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (appointed council, draft, constituencies), 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:242
# text = The appointed council "exercises a de facto veto" over the "rubber-stamp" elected, because draft acts must be approved so they may pass into law.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	exercises	exercise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
8	facto	facto	X	FW	_	9	compound	_	_
9	veto	veto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	stamp	stamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	draft	draft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	acts	act	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	approved	approve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **exercise** *in a quote* | present | the appointed council | a de facto veto |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **elect** | participle |  | the rubber stamp *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **act** | present | draft |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **approve** | must · passive |  |  |  | the rubber stamp |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V» |
| 6 | **pass** | may | constituencies *= constituency* |  |  | law |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into law=Initial\_Location |

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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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