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title: The use of child labour in Uzbekistan has led several companies, inc… — Uzbekistan · tree and pragmatics
description: The use of child labour in Uzbekistan has led several companies, including Tesco, C&A, Marks & Spencer, Gap, and H&M, to boycott Uzbek cotton. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uzbekistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uzbekistan, sentence 249

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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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The use of child labour in Uzbekistan has led several companies, including Tesco, C&A, Marks & Spencer, Gap, and H&M, to boycott Uzbek cotton.

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**What happens:** lead, boycott, use · **To what, where:** use, Uzbek cotton, child labour

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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: 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:249
# text = The use of child labour in Uzbekistan has led several companies, including Tesco, C&A, Marks & Spencer, Gap, and H&M, to boycott Uzbek cotton.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	including	including	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Tesco	Tesco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Marks	Marks	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Spencer	Spencer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Gap	Gap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	H	H	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	M	M	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	boycott	boycott	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
33	Uzbek	Uzbek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | present · perfect · passive |  | the use of child labour in Uzbekistan |  |  |  | several companies *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **boycott** | to-infinitive |  | Uzbek cotton |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent cotton=Location |
| 3 | **use** |  |  | child labour in Uzbekistan |  |  |  |  | nom use «act 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, «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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