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title: Public protests by civic organisations and trade unions became more… — Eswatini · tree and pragmatics
description: Public protests by civic organisations and trade unions became more common. Who acts: Public protests, civic organisations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eswatini» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eswatini, sentence 112

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From Wikipedia, [«Eswatini»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eswatini), 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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Public protests by civic organisations and trade unions became more common.

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**Who acts:** Public protests, civic organisations · **What happens:** become, protest

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Eswatini». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Public protests, civic organisations), 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:Eswatini:112
# text = Public protests by civic organisations and trade unions became more common.
1	Public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	civic	civic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	organisations	organisation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	unions	union	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Public protests by civic organisations and trade unions |  |  |  |  | common *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **protest** |  | civic organisations and trade unions |  |  |  |  |  | nom protest «communication transitive»: by=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, «Eswatini», 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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