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title: After the 1962 population census was conducted, Cambodia's civil con… — Cambodia · tree and pragmatics
description: After the 1962 population census was conducted, Cambodia's civil conflicts and instability lead to a 36-year-long gap before the country could have another official census in 1998. Who acts: civil conflicts, Cambodia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cambodia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cambodia, sentence 306

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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.

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After the 1962 population census was conducted, Cambodia's civil conflicts and instability lead to a 36-year-long gap before the country could have another official census in 1998.

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**Who acts:** civil conflicts, Cambodia · **What happens:** conduct, have, conflict · **To what, where:** population census, official census, 1998

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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: who acts (civil conflicts, Cambodia), 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:Cambodia:306
# text = After the 1962 population census was conducted, Cambodia's civil conflicts and instability lead to a 36-year-long gap before the country could have another official census in 1998.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	1962	1962	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	census	census	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Cambodia	Cambodia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	conflicts	conflict	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	instability	instability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
18	36	36	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
24	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
29	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
30	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	census	census	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	1998	1998	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | past · passive |  | the population census |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | could | Cambodia's civil conflicts and instability lead to a long gap before the country | another official census |  | 1998 |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent census=Patient |
| 3 | **conflict** |  | Cambodia |  |  |  |  |  | nom conflict «act intransitive»: 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, «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.

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