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title: Seychelles has emerged as the least corrupt country in Africa in the… — Seychelles · tree and pragmatics
description: Seychelles has emerged as the least corrupt country in Africa in the latest Corruption Perception Index report released by Transparency International in January 2020. Who acts: Seychelles. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Seychelles» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Seychelles, sentence 233

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From Wikipedia, [«Seychelles»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seychelles), 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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Seychelles has emerged as the least corrupt country in Africa in the latest Corruption Perception Index report released by Transparency International in January 2020.

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**Who acts:** Seychelles · **What happens:** emerge, release · **To what, where:** latest Corruption, Perception Index report

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Seychelles». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seychelles), 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:Seychelles:233
# text = Seychelles has emerged as the least corrupt country in Africa in the latest Corruption Perception Index report released by Transparency International in January 2020.
1	Seychelles	Seychelles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	emerged	emerge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
7	corrupt	corrupt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	latest	late	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	Corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	Perception	Perception	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	Index	index	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Transparency	Transparency	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	International	International	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod:unmarked	_	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 | **emerge** | present · perfect | Seychelles |  |  | the latest Corruption  Perception Index report |  | as the least corrupt country in Africa | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corruption=Location |
| 2 | **release** | participle |  | Perception Index report *not said here* |  |  |  | by Transparency International in January  2020 | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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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, «Seychelles», 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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