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title: Three editors from the now-banned opposition daily Al-Wasat were sac… — Bahrain · tree and pragmatics
description: Three editors from the now-banned opposition daily Al-Wasat were sacked and later fined for publishing "false" news. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bahrain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bahrain, sentence 345

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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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Three editors from the now-banned opposition daily Al-Wasat were sacked and later fined for publishing "false" news.

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**What happens:** ban, sack, fine, publish · **To what, where:** Three editors, false news

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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: 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:345
# text = Three editors from the now-banned opposition daily Al-Wasat were sacked and later fined for publishing "false" news.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	editors	editor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Wasat	Wasat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	sacked	sack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	fined	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	publishing	publish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	advcl	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ban** | participle |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **sack** | past · passive |  | Three editors from the banned opposition |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **fine** | past |  |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **publish** | gerund |  | false news |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Result |

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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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