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title: The judiciary is supposed to be independent of the executive and the… — Thailand · tree and pragmatics
description: The judiciary is supposed to be independent of the executive and the legislative branches, although judicial rulings are suspected of being based on political considerations rather than on existing law. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thailand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Thailand, sentence 399

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From Wikipedia, [«Thailand»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand), 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 judiciary is supposed to be independent of the executive and the legislative branches, although judicial rulings are suspected of being based on political considerations rather than on existing law.

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**What happens:** suppose, be, suspect, base, exist · **To what, where:** judiciary, judicial rulings

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Thailand». 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:Thailand:399
# text = The judiciary is supposed to be independent of the executive and the legislative branches, although judicial rulings are suspected of being based on political considerations rather than on existing law.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	judiciary	judiciary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	executive	executive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	legislative	legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	judicial	judicial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rulings	ruling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	suspected	suspect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
23	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	considerations	consideration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	31	cc	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	existing	exist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
31	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | present · passive |  | the judiciary |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of the executive legislative branches; independent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **suspect** | present · passive |  | judicial rulings |  |  |  | existing law *conj* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 4 | **base** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of based political considerations | tree rules |
| 6 | **exist** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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, «Thailand», 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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