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title: In 2009, the German government approved a €50 billion stimulus plan. — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2009, the German government approved a €50 billion stimulus plan. Who acts: German government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Germany» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Germany, sentence 138

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From Wikipedia, [«Germany»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany), 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 2009, the German government approved a €50 billion stimulus plan.

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**Who acts:** German government · **What happens:** approve · **To what, where:** billion stimulus plan, 2009

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Germany». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (German government), 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:Germany:138
# text = In 2009, the German government approved a €50 billion stimulus plan.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	approved	approve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	€	€	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	stimulus	stimulus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approve** | past | the German government | a billion stimulus plan |  | 2009 |  |  | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Beneficiary |

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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, «Germany», 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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