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title: However, most international observers refused to participate in the… — Uzbekistan · tree and pragmatics
description: However, most international observers refused to participate in the electoral process and dismissed the results as failing to meet democratic standards. Who acts: most international observers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uzbekistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uzbekistan, sentence 150

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From Wikipedia, [«Uzbekistan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbekistan), 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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However, most international observers refused to participate in the electoral process and dismissed the results as failing to meet democratic standards.

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**Who acts:** most international observers · **What happens:** refuse, not participate, dismiss, fail, not meet · **To what, where:** results, democratic standards

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Uzbekistan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most international observers), 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:Uzbekistan:150
# text = However, most international observers refused to participate in the electoral process and dismissed the results as failing to meet democratic standards.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
4	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	observers	observer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	participate	participate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	electoral	electoral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	failing	fail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	democratic	democratic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	standards	standard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | most international observers |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **participate** | to-infinitive | most international observers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the electoral process | vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in process=Theme |
| 3 | **dismiss** | past | most international observers *not said here* | the results |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Theme |
| 4 | **fail** | gerund | most international observers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **meet** | to-infinitive | most international observers *not said here* | democratic standards |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Co-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, «Uzbekistan», 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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