--- title: Although the constitution does not specify an official language of t… — Czech Republic · tree and pragmatics description: Although the constitution does not specify an official language of the republic, Czech is spoken as sole mother tongue by 92% to 98% of the population depending on the survey, making the Czech Republic one of the most linguistically homogeneous countries in Europe. Who acts: population. 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Although the constitution does not specify an official language of the republic, Czech is spoken as sole mother tongue by 92% to 98% of the population depending on the survey, making the Czech Republic one of the most linguistically homogeneous countries in Europe. **Who acts:** population · **What happens:** not specify, speak, depend, make · **To what, where:** official language, Czech, Czech Republic · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (population), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:347 # text = Although the constitution does not specify an official language of the republic, Czech is spoken as sole mother tongue by 92% to 98% of the population depending on the survey, making the Czech Republic one of the most linguistically homogeneous countries in Europe. 1 Although although SCONJ IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 constitution constitution NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 specify specify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 republic republic NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 Czech Czech ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 sole sole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 92 92 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 98 98 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 depending depend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 survey survey NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 Czech Czech PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 Republic Republic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 xcomp _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 42 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 43 advmod _ _ 43 linguistically linguistically ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 homogeneous homogeneous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **specify** | present · do-support | | a official language of the republic | | | | although the constitution | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent language=Theme | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive | | Czech | | | | as sole mother tongue | tree rules | | 3 | **depend** | gerund | the population *not said here* | | | | | on the survey | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on survey=Theme | | 4 | **make** | gerund | | the Czech Republic | | | | one of the homogeneous countries in Europe *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset republic=Product | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 346](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Czech_Republic/346/) - next →: [sentence 348](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Czech_Republic/348/) - ↑ back to [Czech Republic](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Czech_Republic/)