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title: There has been a significant decline in fertility in the 2000s, from… — Myanmar · tree and pragmatics
description: There has been a significant decline in fertility in the 2000s, from a rate of 4.7 children per woman in 1983, down to 2.4 in 2001, despite the absence of any national population policy. Who acts: significant decline. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Myanmar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Myanmar, sentence 442

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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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There has been a significant decline in fertility in the 2000s, from a rate of 4.7 children per woman in 1983, down to 2.4 in 2001, despite the absence of any national population policy.

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**Who acts:** significant decline · **What happens:** be, absent · **To what, where:** 1983, national population policy

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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 (significant decline), 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:442
# text = There has been a significant decline in fertility in the 2000s, from a rate of 4.7 children per woman in 1983, down to 2.4 in 2001, despite the absence of any national population policy.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	decline	decline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fertility	fertility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	2000s	2000	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	4.7	4.7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	18	nummod	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	per	per	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1983	1983	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	2.4	2.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	3	parataxis	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
35	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present · perfect | a significant decline in fertility in the 2000s |  |  | 1983; there |  | a rate of 4.7 children per woman *parataxis*; 2.4 in 2001 *parataxis*; the absence of any national population policy *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1983=Location |
| 2 | **absent** |  |  | any national population policy |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state 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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