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title: The current legal framework in principle guarantees freedom of relig… — Bhutan · tree and pragmatics
description: The current legal framework in principle guarantees freedom of religion; proselytism, however, is forbidden by a royal government decision and by judicial interpretation of the Constitution. Who acts: royal government decision. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bhutan» with its dependency tree and pragmati
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# Bhutan, sentence 468

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From Wikipedia, [«Bhutan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan), 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 current legal framework in principle guarantees freedom of religion; proselytism, however, is forbidden by a royal government decision and by judicial interpretation of the Constitution.

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**Who acts:** royal government decision · **What happens:** forbid, interpret · **To what, where:** current legal framework, Constitution

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bhutan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (royal government decision), 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:Bhutan:468
# text = The current legal framework in principle guarantees freedom of religion; proselytism, however, is forbidden by a royal government decision and by judicial interpretation of the Constitution.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	framework	framework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	principle	principle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	guarantees	guarantee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	proselytism	proselytism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	however	however	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	judicial	judicial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	interpretation	interpretation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbid** | present · passive | a royal government decision and judicial interpretation of the Constitution | the current legal framework in principle guarantees freedom of religion and proselytism |  |  |  | however *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme |
| 2 | **interpret** |  |  | the Constitution |  |  |  |  | nom interpretation «cognition 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, «Bhutan», 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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