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title: We committed the irreparable in handing over to the neighbouring aut… — Monaco · tree and pragmatics
description: We committed the irreparable in handing over to the neighbouring authorities women, men and a child who had taken refuge with us to escape the persecutions they had suffered in France," Albert said at a ceremony in which a monument to the victims was unveiled at the Monaco cemetery. " Who acts: We, 
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# Monaco, sentence 92

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From Wikipedia, [«Monaco»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco), 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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We committed the irreparable in handing over to the neighbouring authorities women, men and a child who had taken refuge with us to escape the persecutions they had suffered in France," Albert said at a ceremony in which a monument to the victims was unveiled at the Monaco cemetery. "

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**Who acts:** We, child, persecutions, Albert · **What happens:** commit, hand over, take, escape, suffer, say · **To what, where:** neighbouring authorities women, refuge, persecutions, France, ceremony, monument · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Monaco». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, child, persecutions, Albert), 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:Monaco:92
# text = We committed the irreparable in handing over to the neighbouring authorities women, men and a child who had taken refuge with us to escape the persecutions they had suffered in France," Albert said at a ceremony in which a monument to the victims was unveiled at the Monaco cemetery. "
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	committed	commit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	irreparable	irreparable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	handing	hand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	persecutions	persecution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Albert	albert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	obl	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	monument	monument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	victims	victim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	unveiled	unveil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl:relcl	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	Monaco	Monaco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
54	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commit** | past | We |  |  |  |  | irreparable *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hand over** | gerund | We *not said here* |  | the neighbouring authorities women and men and a child |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to woman=Destination |
| 3 | **take** | past · perfect | a child | refuge |  |  |  | with us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme |
| 4 | **escape** | to-infinitive | a child *not said here* | the persecutions |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme persecution=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **suffer** | past · perfect | persecutions *= persecution* | the persecutions *not said here* |  | France |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer persecution=Stimulus |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Albert |  |  | a ceremony |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **unveil** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | a monument to the victims |  | a ceremony |  | at the Monaco cemetery | 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, «Monaco», 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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