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title: After the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in 2007, the PPP secured t… — Pakistan · tree and pragmatics
description: After the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in 2007, the PPP secured the most votes in the elections of 2008, appointing party member Yusuf Raza Gilani as Prime Minister. Who acts: PPP. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pakistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pakistan, sentence 127

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From Wikipedia, [«Pakistan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan), 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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After the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in 2007, the PPP secured the most votes in the elections of 2008, appointing party member Yusuf Raza Gilani as Prime Minister.

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**Who acts:** PPP · **What happens:** secure, appoint, assassinate · **To what, where:** most votes, elections, Yusuf, Benazir

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Pakistan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (PPP), 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:Pakistan:127
# text = After the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in 2007, the PPP secured the most votes in the elections of 2008, appointing party member Yusuf Raza Gilani as Prime Minister.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	assassination	assassination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Benazir	Benazir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Bhutto	Bhutto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	PPP	PPP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	secured	secure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	appointing	appoint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
23	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:desc	_	_
25	Yusuf	Yusuf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	Raza	Raza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	Gilani	Gilani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	30	compound	_	_
30	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **secure** | past | the PPP | the most votes |  | the elections of 2008 | after the assassination of Benazir in 2007 |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition vote=Theme |
| 2 | **appoint** | gerund | the PPP *not said here* | Yusuf  party member |  |  |  | as Prime Minister | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent yusuf=Theme as minister=Attribute |
| 3 | **assassinate** |  |  | Benazir |  |  |  |  | nom assassination «communication 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, «Pakistan», 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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