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title: Article 28 of the Maldives Constitution guarantees freedom of the pr… — Maldives · tree and pragmatics
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# Maldives, sentence 471

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From Wikipedia, [«Maldives»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives), 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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Article 28 of the Maldives Constitution guarantees freedom of the press and stipulates that:

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**Who acts:** Article · **What happens:** guarantee, stipulate, article · **To what, where:** freedom, that, Maldives Constitution

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Maldives». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Article), 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:Maldives:471
# text = Article 28 of the Maldives Constitution guarantees freedom of the press and stipulates that:
1	Article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Maldives	Maldives	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	guarantees	guarantee	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	orphan	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	stipulates	stipulate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guarantee** | present | Article of the Maldives Constitution | freedom of the press |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition freedom=Theme |
| 2 | **stipulate** | present | Article of the Maldives Constitution *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **article** |  |  | the Maldives Constitution |  |  |  |  | nom article «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «Maldives», 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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