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title: The court succeeded in clearing the backlog of genocide cases, but w… — Rwanda · tree and pragmatics
description: The court succeeded in clearing the backlog of genocide cases, but was criticised by human rights groups as not meeting legal fair standard. Who acts: court, rights groups. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rwanda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rwanda, sentence 105

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From Wikipedia, [«Rwanda»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda), 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 court succeeded in clearing the backlog of genocide cases, but was criticised by human rights groups as not meeting legal fair standard.

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**Who acts:** court, rights groups · **What happens:** succeed, clear, criticise, not meet · **To what, where:** backlog, legal fair standard

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Rwanda». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court, rights groups), 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:Rwanda:105
# text = The court succeeded in clearing the backlog of genocide cases, but was criticised by human rights groups as not meeting legal fair standard.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	clearing	clear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	backlog	backlog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	genocide	genocide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	criticised	criticise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	compound	_	_
18	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
22	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	standard	standard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past | the court |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **clear** | gerund | the court *not said here* | the backlog of genocide cases |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent backlog=Source |
| 3 | **criticise** | past · passive | rights groups |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **meet** | gerund | rights groups *not said here* | legal fair standard |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Co-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, «Rwanda», 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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