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title: In cases where affairs of the Kingdom do not affect Aruba, Curaçao,… — Kingdom of the Netherlands · tree and pragmatics
description: In cases where affairs of the Kingdom do not affect Aruba, Curaçao, or Sint Maarten, they are dealt with according to the provisions laid down in the Constitution. Who acts: affairs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kingdom of the Netherlands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kingdom of the Netherlands, sentence 109

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From Wikipedia, [«Kingdom of the Netherlands»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands), 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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In cases where affairs of the Kingdom do not affect Aruba, Curaçao, or Sint Maarten, they are dealt with according to the provisions laid down in the Constitution.

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**Who acts:** affairs · **What happens:** not affect, deal, lay down · **To what, where:** Aruba, cases, affairs, provisions, Constitution

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kingdom of the Netherlands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (affairs), 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:Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands:109
# text = In cases where affairs of the Kingdom do not affect Aruba, Curaçao, or Sint Maarten, they are dealt with according to the provisions laid down in the Constitution.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
4	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	affect	affect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	Aruba	Aruba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Curaçao	Curaçao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Sint	Sint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	Maarten	Maarten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	dealt	deal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	according	according	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	down	down	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **affect** | present · do-support | affairs of the Kingdom | Aruba or Sint |  | cases |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus aruba=Experiencer |
| 2 | **deal** | present · passive |  | affairs *= affair* | the provisions |  |  | with according | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to provision=Recipient |
| 3 | **lay down** | participle |  | the provisions *not said here* |  | the Constitution |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in constitution=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, «Kingdom of the Netherlands», 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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