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title: Despite the 1983 constitutional amendments which proscribed a politi… — Panama · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite the 1983 constitutional amendments which proscribed a political role for the military, the Panama Defense Force (PDF), as they were then known, continued to dominate Panamanian political life. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Panama» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Panama, sentence 128

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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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Despite the 1983 constitutional amendments which proscribed a political role for the military, the Panama Defense Force (PDF), as they were then known, continued to dominate Panamanian political life.

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**What happens:** proscribe, know, continue · **To what, where:** political role, deaths, dominate Panamanian political life

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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: 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:128
# text = Despite the 1983 constitutional amendments which proscribed a political role for the military, the Panama Defense Force (PDF), as they were then known, continued to dominate Panamanian political life.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	1983	1983	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	amendments	amendment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	proscribed	proscribe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Panama	Panama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Defense	Defense	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Force	Force	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	PDF	PDF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	dominate	dominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|Typo=Yes	34	amod	_	_
32	Panamanian	Panamanian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proscribe** | past |  | a political role  the Defense Force |  |  |  | despite the 1983 constitutional amendments; for the military; which *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | past · passive |  | deaths *= death* |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **continue** | participle |  |  |  | dominate Panamanian political life |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial\_Location |

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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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