--- title: The country's military, the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF), is res… — Japan · tree and pragmatics description: The country's military, the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF), is restricted by Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which renounces Japan's right to declare war or use military force in international disputes. Who acts: Article, Japanese Constitution. 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The country's military, the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF), is restricted by Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which renounces Japan's right to declare war or use military force in international disputes. **Who acts:** Article, Japanese Constitution · **What happens:** restrict, renounce, declare, use, article · **To what, where:** military, right, war, military force, international disputes, Japanese Constitution This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Japan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Article, Japanese Constitution), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Japan:228 # text = The country's military, the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF), is restricted by Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which renounces Japan's right to declare war or use military force in international disputes. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 military military NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 7 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 8 Self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Defense defense NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Forces force NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 JSDF JSDF PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 restricted restrict VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Article article NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 flat _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Japanese Japanese PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Constitution Constitution PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 renounces renounce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 declare declare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 33 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 36 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 international international ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 disputes dispute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **restrict** | present · passive | Article of the Japanese Constitution | the country's military and the Japan Defense Forces | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Patient | | 2 | **renounce** | present | the Japanese Constitution | Japan's right | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Source | | 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the Japanese Constitution *not said here* | war | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute | | 4 | **use** | infinitive | the Japanese Constitution *not said here* | military force | | international disputes | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient | | 5 | **article** | | | the Japanese Constitution | | | | | nom article «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Japan», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 227](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Japan/227/) - next →: [sentence 229](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Japan/229/) - ↑ back to [Japan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Japan/)