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title: The country has imposed strict regulations on abortion, which is per… — Poland · tree and pragmatics
description: The country has imposed strict regulations on abortion, which is permitted only in cases of rape, incest or when the woman's life is in danger; congenital disorder is not covered by the law, prompting some women to seek abortion abroad. Who acts: life, law. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Poland» with it
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# Poland, sentence 286

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From Wikipedia, [«Poland»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland), 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 country has imposed strict regulations on abortion, which is permitted only in cases of rape, incest or when the woman's life is in danger; congenital disorder is not covered by the law, prompting some women to seek abortion abroad.

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**Who acts:** life, law · **What happens:** impose, permit, be, not cover, prompt, seek · **To what, where:** country, strict regulations, cases, danger, congenital disorder, women

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Poland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, law), 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:Poland:286
# text = The country has imposed strict regulations on abortion, which is permitted only in cases of rape, incest or when the woman's life is in danger; congenital disorder is not covered by the law, prompting some women to seek abortion abroad.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	imposed	impose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	regulations	regulation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	abortion	abortion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	permitted	permit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	rape	rape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	incest	incest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	congenital	congenital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	disorder	disorder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	prompting	prompt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
40	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
41	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	_
44	abortion	abortion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
45	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **impose** | present · perfect · passive |  | the country |  |  |  | strict regulations *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **permit** | present · passive |  | strict regulations |  | cases of rape and incest or danger |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in case=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | the woman's life |  |  | danger |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **cover** | present · passive | the law | congenital disorder |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination |
| 5 | **prompt** | gerund | the law *not said here* | some women |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition woman=Patient |
| 6 | **seek** | to-infinitive | the law *not said here* | abortion |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abortion=Theme |

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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, «Poland», 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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