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title: Some critics of the government have been arrested for allegedly spre… — Kazakhstan · tree and pragmatics
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# Kazakhstan, sentence 423

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From Wikipedia, [«Kazakhstan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan), 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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Some critics of the government have been arrested for allegedly spreading false information about the COVID-19 pandemic in Kazakhstan.

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**What happens:** arrest, spread · **To what, where:** critics, false information

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kazakhstan». 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:Kazakhstan:423
# text = Some critics of the government have been arrested for allegedly spreading false information about the COVID-19 pandemic in Kazakhstan.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	critics	critic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	allegedly	allegedly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	COVID	COVID	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
19	pandemic	pandemic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrest** | present · perfect · passive |  | some critics of the government |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **spread** | gerund |  | false information |  |  |  | about the COVID pandemic in Kazakhstan; allegedly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent information=Theme about pandemic=Destination |

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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, «Kazakhstan», 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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