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title: In August 2017, US President Donald Trump's administration imposed m… — Venezuela · tree and pragmatics
description: In August 2017, US President Donald Trump's administration imposed more economic sanctions against the PDVSA and Venezuelan officials. Who acts: administration, Donald. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Venezuela» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Venezuela, sentence 190

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From Wikipedia, [«Venezuela»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela), 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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In August 2017, US President Donald Trump's administration imposed more economic sanctions against the PDVSA and Venezuelan officials.

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**Who acts:** administration, Donald · **What happens:** impose, administer · **To what, where:** economic sanctions, 2017

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Venezuela». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (administration, Donald), 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:Venezuela:190
# text = In August 2017, US President Donald Trump's administration imposed more economic sanctions against the PDVSA and Venezuelan officials.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Donald	Donald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Trump	Trump	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
10	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	imposed	impose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sanctions	sanction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	PDVSA	PDVSA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Venezuelan	Venezuelan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **impose** | past | Donald  US President's administration | economic sanctions |  | 2017  August |  | against the PDVSA and Venezuelan officials | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sanction=Theme |
| 2 | **administer** |  | Donald  US President |  |  |  |  |  | nom administration «act transitive»: poss=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, «Venezuela», 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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