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title: Wingate's British Chindits were formed into long-range penetration g… — Myanmar · tree and pragmatics
description: Wingate's British Chindits were formed into long-range penetration groups trained to operate deep behind Japanese lines. Who acts: range penetration groups. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Myanmar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Myanmar, sentence 129

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From Wikipedia, [«Myanmar»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar), 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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Wingate's British Chindits were formed into long-range penetration groups trained to operate deep behind Japanese lines.

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**Who acts:** range penetration groups · **What happens:** form, train, operate · **To what, where:** British Chindits, range penetration groups, Japanese lines

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Myanmar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (range penetration groups), 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:Myanmar:129
# text = Wingate's British Chindits were formed into long-range penetration groups trained to operate deep behind Japanese lines.
1	Wingate	Wingate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Chindits	chindit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	penetration	penetration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	operate	operate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past · passive |  | Wingate's British Chindits |  | range penetration groups |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **train** | participle |  | range penetration groups *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **operate** | to-infinitive | range penetration groups *not said here* |  |  | Japanese lines |  | deep *property* | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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, «Myanmar», 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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