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title: Film stars who had been involved in political activities were banned… — Myanmar · tree and pragmatics
description: Film stars who had been involved in political activities were banned from appearing in films. Who acts: Film stars. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Myanmar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Myanmar, sentence 586

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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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Film stars who had been involved in political activities were banned from appearing in films.

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**Who acts:** Film stars · **What happens:** be, ban, appear · **To what, where:** political activities, Film stars, films

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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 (Film stars), 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:586
# text = Film stars who had been involved in political activities were banned from appearing in films.
1	Film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	involved	involved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	activities	activity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	appearing	appear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | Film stars |  |  | political activities |  | involved *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ban** | past · passive |  | Film stars |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **appear** | gerund |  |  |  | films |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=Location |

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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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