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description: In July 2011, the government proposed new anti-corruption laws to criminalise embezzlement, influence peddling and graft, following numerous instances of the theft of public money. Who acts: government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mozambique» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mozambique, sentence 219

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From Wikipedia, [«Mozambique»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique), 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 July 2011, the government proposed new anti-corruption laws to criminalise embezzlement, influence peddling and graft, following numerous instances of the theft of public money.

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**Who acts:** government · **What happens:** propose, criminalise, follow, instance · **To what, where:** new anti-corruption laws, embezzlement, numerous instances, theft

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mozambique». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (government), 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:Mozambique:219
# text = In July 2011, the government proposed new anti-corruption laws to criminalise embezzlement, influence peddling and graft, following numerous instances of the theft of public money.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	anti-corruption	anti-corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	criminalise	criminalise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	embezzlement	embezzlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	peddling	peddling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	graft	graft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
21	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	instances	instance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | past | the government | new anti-corruption laws |  |  | july |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme |
| 2 | **criminalise** | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* | embezzlement and influence peddling and graft |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund | the government *not said here* | numerous instances of the theft of public money |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instance=Theme |
| 4 | **instance** |  |  | the theft of public money |  |  |  |  | nom instance «event 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, «Mozambique», 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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