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title: States, in essence, are regions that are home to particular ethnic m… — Myanmar · tree and pragmatics
description: States, in essence, are regions that are home to particular ethnic minorities. Who acts: States, regions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Myanmar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Myanmar, sentence 247

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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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States, in essence, are regions that are home to particular ethnic minorities.

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**Who acts:** States, regions · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** regions

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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 (States, regions), 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:247
# text = States, in essence, are regions that are home to particular ethnic minorities.
1	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	essence	essence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	minorities	minority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | States in essence | regions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | regions |  |  |  |  | to particular ethnic minorities; home *property* | 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, «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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