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title: Commentators noted that under the U.S. Constitution, statehood canno… — Venezuela · tree and pragmatics
description: Commentators noted that under the U.S. Constitution, statehood cannot be unilaterally declared by the president and would require congressional approval as well as the consent of Venezuela. Who acts: Commentators, president. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Venezuela» with its dependency tree and pragmati
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# Venezuela, sentence 236

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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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Commentators noted that under the U.S. Constitution, statehood cannot be unilaterally declared by the president and would require congressional approval as well as the consent of Venezuela.

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**Who acts:** Commentators, president · **What happens:** note, not declare, require, consent · **To what, where:** statehood, congressional approval, Venezuela

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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 (Commentators, president), 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:236
# text = Commentators noted that under the U.S. Constitution, statehood cannot be unilaterally declared by the president and would require congressional approval as well as the consent of Venezuela.
1	Commentators	commentator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	noted	note	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	statehood	statehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	unilaterally	unilaterally	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	congressional	congressional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	approval	approval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	20	advmod	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	fixed	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Venezuela	Venezuela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **note** | past | Commentators |  |  |  |  | the U.S. Constitution *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **declare** *speech: other* | can · passive | the president | statehood |  |  |  | unilaterally *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute |
| 3 | **require** | would | the president *not said here* | congressional approval |  |  |  | as the consent of Venezuela | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme approval=Precondition |
| 4 | **consent** |  |  | Venezuela |  |  |  |  | nom consent «communication 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, «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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