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title: The Seychelles president, who is head of state and head of governmen… — Seychelles · tree and pragmatics
description: The Seychelles president, who is head of state and head of government, is elected by popular vote for a five-year term of office. Who acts: Seychelles president, popular vote. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Seychelles» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Seychelles, sentence 54

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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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The Seychelles president, who is head of state and head of government, is elected by popular vote for a five-year term of office.

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**Who acts:** Seychelles president, popular vote · **What happens:** be, elect, term · **To what, where:** head, Seychelles president, office

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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 president, popular vote), 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:54
# text = The Seychelles president, who is head of state and head of government, is elected by popular vote for a five-year term of office.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Seychelles	Seychelles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Seychelles president | head |  |  |  | of state and head of government | tree rules |
| 2 | **elect** | present · passive | popular vote | the Seychelles president |  |  |  | for a year term of office | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **term** |  |  | office |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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