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title: In 1988, unrest over economic mismanagement and political oppression… — Myanmar · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1988, unrest over economic mismanagement and political oppression by the government led to widespread pro-democracy demonstrations throughout the country, known as the 8888 Uprising. Who acts: unrest, government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Myanmar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Myanmar, sentence 159

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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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In 1988, unrest over economic mismanagement and political oppression by the government led to widespread pro-democracy demonstrations throughout the country, known as the 8888 Uprising.

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**Who acts:** unrest, government · **What happens:** lead, know, oppress · **To what, where:** country

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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 (unrest, 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:Myanmar:159
# text = In 1988, unrest over economic mismanagement and political oppression by the government led to widespread pro-democracy demonstrations throughout the country, known as the 8888 Uprising.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1988	1988	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	unrest	unrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mismanagement	mismanagement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	oppression	oppression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	pro-democracy	pro-democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	demonstrations	demonstration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	8888	8888	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	Uprising	uprising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | unrest over economic mismanagement and political oppression by the government |  |  |  | throughout the country | to widespread pro-democracy demonstrations; in 1988 | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition in 1988=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | the country *not said here* |  |  |  | as the 8888 Uprising | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as uprising=Attribute |
| 3 | **oppress** |  | the government |  |  |  |  |  | nom oppression «act transitive»: by=agent |

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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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