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title: Laws, acts of the parliament and the cabinet, presidential decrees,… — Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: Laws, acts of the parliament and the cabinet, presidential decrees, and acts of the Crimean parliament may be abrogated by the Constitutional Court, should they be found to violate the constitution. Who acts: Constitutional Court, Laws, parliament, Crimean parliament. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ukra
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# Ukraine, sentence 251

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From Wikipedia, [«Ukraine»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine), 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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Laws, acts of the parliament and the cabinet, presidential decrees, and acts of the Crimean parliament may be abrogated by the Constitutional Court, should they be found to violate the constitution.

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**Who acts:** Constitutional Court, Laws, parliament, Crimean parliament · **What happens:** abrogate, find, violate, act · **To what, where:** acts, Laws, constitution

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ukraine». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Constitutional Court, Laws, parliament, Crimean parliament), 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:Ukraine:251
# text = Laws, acts of the parliament and the cabinet, presidential decrees, and acts of the Crimean parliament may be abrogated by the Constitutional Court, should they be found to violate the constitution.
1	Laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	decrees	decree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Crimean	crimean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	abrogated	abrogate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	violate	violate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abrogate** | may · passive | the Constitutional Court | acts of the Crimean parliament |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | should · passive |  | Laws and acts of the parliament and the cabinet and presidential decrees |  |  |  | laws *= law* *nsubj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **violate** | to-infinitive | Laws and acts of the parliament and the cabinet and presidential decrees *not said here* | the constitution |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **act** |  | the parliament and the cabinet |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **act** |  | the Crimean parliament |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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, «Ukraine», 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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