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title: Threatened with impeachment, President Musharraf resigned on 18 Augu… — Pakistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Threatened with impeachment, President Musharraf resigned on 18 August 2008, and was succeeded by Asif Ali Zardari. Who acts: Musharraf, Asif Ali. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pakistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pakistan, sentence 128

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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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Threatened with impeachment, President Musharraf resigned on 18 August 2008, and was succeeded by Asif Ali Zardari.

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**Who acts:** Musharraf, Asif Ali · **What happens:** threaten, resign, succeed · **To what, where:** 18

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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 (Musharraf, Asif Ali), 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:128
# text = Threatened with impeachment, President Musharraf resigned on 18 August 2008, and was succeeded by Asif Ali Zardari.
1	Threatened	threaten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	impeachment	impeachment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Musharraf	Musharraf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	resigned	resign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Asif	Asif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl:agent	_	_
19	Zardari	Zardari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **threaten** | participle | Musharraf  President *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with impeachment | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **resign** | past | Musharraf  President |  |  | 18  August |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **succeed** | past · passive | Asif Ali |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=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, «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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