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title: The treaty granted rights to the United States "as if it were sovere… — Panama · tree and pragmatics
description: The treaty granted rights to the United States "as if it were sovereign" in a zone roughly 10 mi wide and 50 mi long. Who acts: treaty, right. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Panama» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Panama, sentence 101

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From Wikipedia, [«Panama»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama), 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 treaty granted rights to the United States "as if it were sovereign" in a zone roughly 10 mi wide and 50 mi long.

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**Who acts:** treaty, right · **What happens:** grant, be · **To what, where:** rights, United States, zone

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Panama». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treaty, right), 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:Panama:101
# text = The treaty granted rights to the United States "as if it were sovereign" in a zone roughly 10 mi wide and 50 mi long.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	treaty	treaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	granted	grant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	mi	mi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	mi	mi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | past | the treaty | rights | the United States | a zone  10 mi and 50 mi |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent right=Theme to state=Goal |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | right |  |  |  |  | as sovereign | tree rules |

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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, «Panama», 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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