---
title: Since the 2017 crackdowns on political dissent and free press, Cambo… — Cambodia · tree and pragmatics
description: Since the 2017 crackdowns on political dissent and free press, Cambodia has been described as a de facto one-party state. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cambodia» 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/Cambodia/209/)

<!-- 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/) / [Cambodia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cambodia/) / 209

# Cambodia, sentence 209

<!-- div src -->

From Wikipedia, [«Cambodia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia), 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 -->
Since the 2017 crackdowns on political dissent and free press, Cambodia has been described as a de facto one-party state.

<!-- .vintro -->
**What happens:** describe · **To what, where:** Cambodia

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cambodia». 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.

<!-- .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:Cambodia:209
# text = Since the 2017 crackdowns on political dissent and free press, Cambodia has been described as a de facto one-party state.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	crackdowns	crackdown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dissent	dissent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	Cambodia	Cambodia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	obl	_	_
19	facto	facto	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	dep	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · perfect · passive |  | Cambodia |  |  | since the 2017 crackdowns on political dissent and free press | as a de and party state | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as de=Attribute |

<!-- .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, «Cambodia», 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 208](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cambodia/208/)
- next →: [sentence 210](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cambodia/210/)
- ↑ back to [Cambodia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cambodia/)