---
title: From May 2012 to February 2013, the United States began to lift its… — Myanmar · tree and pragmatics
description: From May 2012 to February 2013, the United States began to lift its economic sanctions on Myanmar "in response to the historic reforms that have been taking place in that country." Who acts: United States, historic reforms, most. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Myanmar» with its dependency tree and pragm
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Myanmar/377/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Myanmar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Myanmar/) / 377

# Myanmar, sentence 377

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
From May 2012 to February 2013, the United States began to lift its economic sanctions on Myanmar "in response to the historic reforms that have been taking place in that country."

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** United States, historic reforms, most · **What happens:** begin, lift, take, sanction · **To what, where:** economic sanctions, Myanmar, place, country

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (United States, historic reforms, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:377
# text = From May 2012 to February 2013, the United States began to lift its economic sanctions on Myanmar "in response to the historic reforms that have been taking place in that country."
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sanctions	sanction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Myanmar	Myanmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	reforms	reform	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux	_	_
29	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the United States |  |  |  | may |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lift** | to-infinitive | the United States *not said here* | most's economic sanctions |  | Myanmar |  | in response to the historic reforms | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent sanction=Theme on myanmar=Destination in response=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | the historic reforms | place |  | that country |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in country=Location |
| 4 | **sanction** |  | most |  |  |  |  |  | nom sanction «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 376](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Myanmar/376/)
- next →: [sentence 378](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Myanmar/378/)
- ↑ back to [Myanmar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Myanmar/)