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title: On 12 April 1973, King Sobhuza II annulled it by decree, assuming su… — Eswatini · tree and pragmatics
description: On 12 April 1973, King Sobhuza II annulled it by decree, assuming supreme powers in all executive, judicial, and legislative matters. Who acts: King. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eswatini» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eswatini, sentence 187

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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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On 12 April 1973, King Sobhuza II annulled it by decree, assuming supreme powers in all executive, judicial, and legislative matters.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** annul, assume · **To what, where:** independence, 12, supreme powers, executive legislative matters

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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:187
# text = On 12 April 1973, King Sobhuza II annulled it by decree, assuming supreme powers in all executive, judicial, and legislative matters.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
3	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1973	1973	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	Sobhuza	Sobhuza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
9	annulled	annul	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	assuming	assume	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	supreme	supreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
19	executive	executive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	judicial	judicial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	legislative	legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **annul** | past | King | independence |  | 12  1973  April |  | by decree | vn void-106 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **assume** | gerund | King *not said here* | supreme powers |  | executive legislative matters |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |

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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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