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title: The role of the Bundeswehr is described in the Constitution of Germa… — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: The role of the Bundeswehr is described in the Constitution of Germany as defensive only. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Germany» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Germany, sentence 237

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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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The role of the Bundeswehr is described in the Constitution of Germany as defensive only.

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**What happens:** describe · **To what, where:** role, Constitution

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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: 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:237
# text = The role of the Bundeswehr is described in the Constitution of Germany as defensive only.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Bundeswehr	Bundeswehr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	defensive	defensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · passive |  | the role of the Bundeswehr |  | the Constitution of Germany |  | as defensive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as defensive=Attribute |

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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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