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title: In January 2023, retired general Petr Pavel won the presidential ele… — Czech Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: In January 2023, retired general Petr Pavel won the presidential election, becoming new Czech president to succeed Miloš Zeman. Who acts: retired general Petr. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Czech Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Czech Republic, sentence 119

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From Wikipedia, [«Czech Republic»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic), 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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In January 2023, retired general Petr Pavel won the presidential election, becoming new Czech president to succeed Miloš Zeman.

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**Who acts:** retired general Petr · **What happens:** win, become, succeed · **To what, where:** presidential election, new Czech president, Miloš

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Czech Republic». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (retired general Petr), 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:Czech_Republic:119
# text = In January 2023, retired general Petr Pavel won the presidential election, becoming new Czech president to succeed Miloš Zeman.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	retired	retired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Petr	Petr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Pavel	Pavel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Czech	czech	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	Miloš	Miloš	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	Zeman	Zeman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | retired general Petr | the presidential election |  |  | january |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality |
| 2 | **become** | gerund | retired general Petr *not said here* | new Czech president |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **succeed** | to-infinitive | retired general Petr *not said here* | Miloš |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «Czech Republic», 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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