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title: In June 2021, pro-democracy protests broke out across the country, s… — Eswatini · tree and pragmatics
description: In June 2021, pro-democracy protests broke out across the country, sparking riots, looting, and street skirmishes with police and soldiers. Who acts: pro-democracy protests. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eswatini» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eswatini, sentence 120

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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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In June 2021, pro-democracy protests broke out across the country, sparking riots, looting, and street skirmishes with police and soldiers.

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**Who acts:** pro-democracy protests · **What happens:** break out, spark, loot · **To what, where:** street skirmishes, country, riots

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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 (pro-democracy protests), 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:120
# text = In June 2021, pro-democracy protests broke out across the country, sparking riots, looting, and street skirmishes with police and soldiers.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	pro-democracy	pro-democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sparking	spark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	riots	riot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	looting	loot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	skirmishes	skirmish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break out** | past | pro-democracy protests | street skirmishes with police and soldiers |  | the country | june |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **spark** | gerund | pro-democracy protests *not said here* | riots |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition riot=Patient |
| 3 | **loot** | gerund | pro-democracy protests *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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, «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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