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title: The National Unity Government then declared the formation of an arme… — Myanmar · tree and pragmatics
description: The National Unity Government then declared the formation of an armed wing on 5 May 2021, a date that is often cited as the start of a full-scale civil war. Who acts: National Unity Government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Myanmar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Myanmar, sentence 227

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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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The National Unity Government then declared the formation of an armed wing on 5 May 2021, a date that is often cited as the start of a full-scale civil war.

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**Who acts:** National Unity Government · **What happens:** declare, cite, start · **To what, where:** formation, date, scale civil war

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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 (National Unity 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:227
# text = The National Unity Government then declared the formation of an armed wing on 5 May 2021, a date that is often cited as the start of a full-scale civil war.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Unity	Unity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Government	Government	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	formation	formation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	cited	cite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
29	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the National Unity Government | the formation of a armed wing |  |  | then; may |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent formation=Attribute |
| 2 | **cite** | present · passive |  | a date |  |  |  | as the start of a scale civil war; often *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as start=Attribute |
| 3 | **start** |  |  | a scale civil war |  |  |  |  | nom start «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, «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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