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title: Dividends worth CZK 270 billion were paid to the foreign owners of C… — Czech Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: Dividends worth CZK 270 billion were paid to the foreign owners of Czech companies in 2017, which has become a political issue. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Czech Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Czech Republic, sentence 242

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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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Dividends worth CZK 270 billion were paid to the foreign owners of Czech companies in 2017, which has become a political issue.

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**What happens:** pay, become · **To what, where:** Dividends, 2017, political issue

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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: 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:242
# text = Dividends worth CZK 270 billion were paid to the foreign owners of Czech companies in 2017, which has become a political issue.
1	Dividends	dividend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	CZK	CZK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	270	270	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Czech	Czech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past · passive |  | Dividends |  | 2017 |  | to the foreign owners of Czech companies | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **become** | present · perfect |  | a political issue |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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, «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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