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title: The civilian government was overthrown in a 1963 military coup, and… — Honduras · tree and pragmatics
description: The civilian government was overthrown in a 1963 military coup, and the nation returned to civilian rule in 1979. Who acts: nation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Honduras» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Honduras, sentence 16

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From Wikipedia, [«Honduras»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduras), 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 civilian government was overthrown in a 1963 military coup, and the nation returned to civilian rule in 1979.

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**Who acts:** nation · **What happens:** overthrow, return · **To what, where:** civilian government, 1963 military coup, 1979

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Honduras». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nation), 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:Honduras:16
# text = The civilian government was overthrown in a 1963 military coup, and the nation returned to civilian rule in 1979.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	civilian	civilian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	overthrown	overthrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	1963	1963	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	civilian	civilian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1979	1979	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overthrow** | past · passive |  | the civilian government |  | a 1963 military coup |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | past | the nation |  |  | 1979 |  | to civilian rule *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to rule=Result |

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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, «Honduras», 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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