---
title: Each chamber can veto any law passed by local officials if it is con… — Belarus · tree and pragmatics
description: Each chamber can veto any law passed by local officials if it is contrary to the Constitution. Who acts: chamber. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belarus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belarus/199/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Belarus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belarus/) / 199

# Belarus, sentence 199

<!-- div src -->

From Wikipedia, [«Belarus»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus), 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Each chamber can veto any law passed by local officials if it is contrary to the Constitution.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** chamber · **What happens:** veto, pass, be · **To what, where:** law

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Belarus». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chamber), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:Belarus:199
# text = Each chamber can veto any law passed by local officials if it is contrary to the Constitution.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	veto	veto	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	contrary	contrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **veto** | can | each chamber | any law |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | participle |  | any law *not said here* |  |  |  | by local officials | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by official=Location |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | chamber |  |  |  |  | to the Constitution; contrary *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Belarus», 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 198](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belarus/198/)
- next →: [sentence 200](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belarus/200/)
- ↑ back to [Belarus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belarus/)