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title: The people's governments at the provincial, district, and village le… — Laos · tree and pragmatics
description: The people's governments at the provincial, district, and village levels are elected by the people's councils and are accountable to them, and to the government as the supreme executive and administrative organ of state power. Who acts: councils. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Laos» with its dependency 
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# Laos, sentence 152

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From Wikipedia, [«Laos»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laos), 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 people's governments at the provincial, district, and village levels are elected by the people's councils and are accountable to them, and to the government as the supreme executive and administrative organ of state power.

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**Who acts:** councils · **What happens:** elect, be · **To what, where:** village levels, levels, governments

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Laos». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (councils), 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:Laos:152
# text = The people's governments at the provincial, district, and village levels are elected by the people's councils and are accountable to them, and to the government as the supreme executive and administrative organ of state power.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	governments	government	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	provincial	provincial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	levels	level	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	accountable	accountable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
33	supreme	supreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
34	executive	executive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
37	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elect** | present · passive | the people's councils | village levels |  |  |  | the government as the supreme executive organ of state power *parataxis* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the people's councils *not said here* |  | levels *= level* |  |  | accountable *property* | tree rules |

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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, «Laos», 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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