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title: In 1973, the country held its first parliamentary elections; however… — Bahrain · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1973, the country held its first parliamentary elections; however, two years later, the late emir dissolved the parliament and suspended the constitution after parliament rejected the State Security Law. Who acts: country, late emir, constitution, Council. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bahrain» with
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# Bahrain, sentence 244

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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 1973, the country held its first parliamentary elections; however, two years later, the late emir dissolved the parliament and suspended the constitution after parliament rejected the State Security Law.

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**Who acts:** country, late emir, constitution, Council · **What happens:** hold, dissolve, suspend, reject, elect · **To what, where:** first parliamentary elections, 1973, parliament, State Security Law

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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 (country, late emir, constitution, Council), 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:244
# text = In 1973, the country held its first parliamentary elections; however, two years later, the late emir dissolved the parliament and suspended the constitution after parliament rejected the State Security Law.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1973	1973	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
9	parliamentary	parliamentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	however	however	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	emir	emir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	rejected	reject	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	Security	Security	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | the country | Council's first parliamentary elections |  | 1973 |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent election=Theme in 1973=Location |
| 2 | **dissolve** | participle | the late emir | the parliament |  |  |  | however, late *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parliament=Patient |
| 3 | **suspend** | past | the late emir *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reject** | past | the constitution after parliament | the State Security Law |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme |
| 5 | **elect** |  | Council |  |  |  |  |  | nom election «act transitive»: poss=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, «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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