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title: The elections are held every five years after dissolution of parliam… — Eswatini · tree and pragmatics
description: The elections are held every five years after dissolution of parliament by the king. Who acts: king. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eswatini» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eswatini, sentence 182

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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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The elections are held every five years after dissolution of parliament by the king.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** hold, dissolve · **To what, where:** elections, parliament

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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 (king), 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:182
# text = The elections are held every five years after dissolution of parliament by the king.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dissolution	dissolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present · passive | the king | the elections |  |  | after dissolution of parliament; year |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **dissolve** |  |  | parliament |  |  |  |  | nom dissolution «process transitive»: of=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, «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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