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title: Pakistan chose to remain neutral during Operation Decisive Storm, re… — Pakistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Pakistan chose to remain neutral during Operation Decisive Storm, refraining from sending military support to Saudi Arabia in its offensive against Yemen. Who acts: Pakistan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pakistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pakistan, sentence 262

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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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Pakistan chose to remain neutral during Operation Decisive Storm, refraining from sending military support to Saudi Arabia in its offensive against Yemen.

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**Who acts:** Pakistan · **What happens:** choose, remain, refrain, send · **To what, where:** military support, Saudi Arabia, offensive

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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 (Pakistan), 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:262
# text = Pakistan chose to remain neutral during Operation Decisive Storm, refraining from sending military support to Saudi Arabia in its offensive against Yemen.
1	Pakistan	Pakistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	neutral	neutral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	during	during	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Operation	Operation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Decisive	Decisive	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Storm	Storm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	refraining	refrain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Saudi	Saudi	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	offensive	offensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
22	against	against	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | Pakistan |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remain** | to-infinitive | Pakistan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | neutral *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **refrain** | gerund | Pakistan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **send** | gerund | Pakistan *not said here* | military support | Saudi Arabia | support's offensive against Yemen |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent support=Theme to arabia=Destination |

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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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