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title: Sanctions have resulted in international banks blocking payments for… — Venezuela · tree and pragmatics
description: Sanctions have resulted in international banks blocking payments for medicines, fearing retribution from the US Office of Foreign Assets Control. Who acts: Sanctions, international banks. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Venezuela» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Venezuela, sentence 197

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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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Sanctions have resulted in international banks blocking payments for medicines, fearing retribution from the US Office of Foreign Assets Control.

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**Who acts:** Sanctions, international banks · **What happens:** result, block, fear · **To what, where:** international banks, payments, retribution, US Office

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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 (Sanctions, international banks), 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:197
# text = Sanctions have resulted in international banks blocking payments for medicines, fearing retribution from the US Office of Foreign Assets Control.
1	Sanctions	sanction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	blocking	block	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	payments	payment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
13	retribution	retribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Office	Office	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Foreign	Foreign	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Assets	Asset	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	Control	Control	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **result** | present · perfect | Sanctions |  |  | international banks |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bank=Location |
| 2 | **block** | gerund | international banks *not said here* | payments |  |  |  | for medicines | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer payment=Theme |
| 3 | **fear** | gerund | international banks *not said here* | retribution |  | the US Office and Foreign Assets |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer retribution=Stimulus |

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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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