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title: The authorities are accused of arresting democracy and human rights… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: The authorities are accused of arresting democracy and human rights activists, censoring websites, detaining bloggers, and imposing travel bans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 415

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From Wikipedia, [«Syria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria), 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 authorities are accused of arresting democracy and human rights activists, censoring websites, detaining bloggers, and imposing travel bans.

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**What happens:** accuse, arrest, censor, detain · **To what, where:** authorities, democracy, websites, bloggers

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Syria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Syria:415
# text = The authorities are accused of arresting democracy and human rights activists, censoring websites, detaining bloggers, and imposing travel bans.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	accused	accuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	arresting	arrest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	compound	_	_
11	activists	activist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	censoring	censor	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	websites	website	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	detaining	detain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
17	bloggers	blogger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	imposing	imposing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	bans	ban	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accuse** | present · passive |  | the authorities |  |  |  | imposing travel bans *conj* | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **arrest** | gerund |  | democracy and human rights activists |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent democracy=Patient |
| 3 | **censor** | gerund |  | websites |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **detain** | gerund |  | bloggers |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blogger=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, «Syria», 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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