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title: Congressional seats are assigned the parties' candidates on a depart… — Honduras · tree and pragmatics
description: Congressional seats are assigned the parties' candidates on a departmental basis in proportion to the number of votes each party receives. Who acts: party. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Honduras» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Honduras, sentence 161

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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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Congressional seats are assigned the parties' candidates on a departmental basis in proportion to the number of votes each party receives.

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**Who acts:** party · **What happens:** assign, receive · **To what, where:** Congressional seats, departmental basis, votes

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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 (party), 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:161
# text = Congressional seats are assigned the parties' candidates on a departmental basis in proportion to the number of votes each party receives.
1	Congressional	congressional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	seats	seat	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	assigned	assign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	departmental	departmental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assign** | present · passive |  | Congressional seats |  | a departmental basis in proportion |  | to the number of votes; the parties's candidates *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal candidate=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** | present | each party | votes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=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, «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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