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title: Czech literature and culture played a role on at least two occasions… — Czech Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: Czech literature and culture played a role on at least two occasions when Czechs lived under oppression and political activity was suppressed. Who acts: Czech literature, Czechs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Czech Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Czech Republic, sentence 413

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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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Czech literature and culture played a role on at least two occasions when Czechs lived under oppression and political activity was suppressed.

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**Who acts:** Czech literature, Czechs · **What happens:** play, live, suppress · **To what, where:** role, two occasions, oppression, political activity

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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 (Czech literature, Czechs), 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:413
# text = Czech literature and culture played a role on at least two occasions when Czechs lived under oppression and political activity was suppressed.
1	Czech	czech	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	nmod	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	Czechs	czech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	oppression	oppression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	suppressed	suppress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | Czech literature and culture | a role |  | two occasions |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | Czechs |  |  | oppression |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under oppression=Location |
| 3 | **suppress** | past · passive |  | political activity |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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