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title: The country is governed as a parliamentary system with a bicameral l… — Myanmar · tree and pragmatics
description: The country is governed as a parliamentary system with a bicameral legislature (including an executive president accountable to the legislature), with 25% of the legislators appointed by the military and the rest elected in general elections. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Myanmar» with its dependency t
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# Myanmar, sentence 282

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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 country is governed as a parliamentary system with a bicameral legislature (including an executive president accountable to the legislature), with 25% of the legislators appointed by the military and the rest elected in general elections.

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**What happens:** govern, include, appoint, elect · **To what, where:** country, executive president, legislators, rest, general elections

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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: 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:282
# text = The country is governed as a parliamentary system with a bicameral legislature (including an executive president accountable to the legislature), with 25% of the legislators appointed by the military and the rest elected in general elections.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	governed	govern	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	parliamentary	parliamentary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	bicameral	bicameral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	legislature	legislature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	including	include	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	executive	executive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	accountable	accountable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	legislature	legislature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	legislators	legislator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **govern** | present · passive |  | the country |  |  |  | as a parliamentary system; with a bicameral legislature | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **include** | gerund |  | a executive president |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=Theme |
| 3 | **appoint** | participle |  | the legislators *not said here* |  |  |  | by the military | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **elect** | participle · passive |  | the rest |  | general elections |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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