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title: The local government system consists of districts, tehsils, and unio… — Pakistan · tree and pragmatics
description: The local government system consists of districts, tehsils, and union councils, with an elected body at each tier. Who acts: local government system. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pakistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pakistan, sentence 221

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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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The local government system consists of districts, tehsils, and union councils, with an elected body at each tier.

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**Who acts:** local government system · **What happens:** consist, elect

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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 (local government system), 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:221
# text = The local government system consists of districts, tehsils, and union councils, with an elected body at each tier.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	tehsils	tehsil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	tier	tier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | present | the local government system |  |  |  |  | of districts and tehsils and union councils and a elected body at each tier | tree rules |
| 2 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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