--- title: Besides general legislation, the Grand and General Council approves… — San Marino · tree and pragmatics description: Besides general legislation, the Grand and General Council approves the budget and elects the captains regent, the Congress of State (composed of ten secretaries of state with executive power), the Council of Twelve, the Advising Commissions, and the Government Unions. Who acts: Grand. 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Besides general legislation, the Grand and General Council approves the budget and elects the captains regent, the Congress of State (composed of ten secretaries of state with executive power), the Council of Twelve, the Advising Commissions, and the Government Unions. **Who acts:** Grand · **What happens:** approve, elect, compose · **To what, where:** budget, captains regent, Congress This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «San Marino». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:San_Marino:93 # text = Besides general legislation, the Grand and General Council approves the budget and elects the captains regent, the Congress of State (composed of ten secretaries of state with executive power), the Council of Twelve, the Advising Commissions, and the Government Unions. 1 Besides besides ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 legislation legislation NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Grand Grand PROPN NNP _ 10 nsubj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 General General PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:desc _ _ 9 Council Council PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 approves approve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 budget budget NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 elects elect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 captains captain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 compound _ _ 17 regent regent NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Congress Congress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 State State PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 composed compose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 secretaries secretary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 executive executive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Council Council PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 Advising Advising PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 Commissions commission NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 Government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 Unions union NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **approve** | present | the Grand and Council General | the budget | | | | besides general legislation | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent budget=Beneficiary | | 2 | **elect** | present | the Grand and Council General *not said here* | the captains regent and the Congress of State | | | | the Government Unions *obl*; the Council of Twelve and the Advising Commissions *parataxis* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regent=Theme | | 3 | **compose** | participle | | the Congress of State *not said here* | | | | of ten secretaries of state; with executive power | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «San Marino», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/San_Marino/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/San_Marino/94/) - ↑ back to [San Marino](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/San_Marino/)