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title: Official United States foreign policy retains Burma as the country's… — Myanmar · tree and pragmatics
description: Official United States foreign policy retains Burma as the country's name although the State Department's website lists the country as Burma (Myanmar). Who acts: Official United States, website, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Myanmar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Myanmar, sentence 38

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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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Official United States foreign policy retains Burma as the country's name although the State Department's website lists the country as Burma (Myanmar).

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**Who acts:** Official United States, website, country · **What happens:** retain, list, name · **To what, where:** Burma, 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 (Official United States, website, country), 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:38
# text = Official United States foreign policy retains Burma as the country's name although the State Department's website lists the country as Burma (Myanmar).
1	Official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	retains	retain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Burma	Burma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	website	website	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lists	list	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Burma	Burma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Myanmar	Myanmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retain** | present | Official United States | Burma |  |  |  | as the country's name; foreign policy *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **list** | present | the State Department's website | the country |  |  |  | as Burma | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  | the country |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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