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title: In March 2017, the Venezuelan Supreme Court took over law-making pow… — Venezuela · tree and pragmatics
description: In March 2017, the Venezuelan Supreme Court took over law-making powers from the National Assembly but reversed its decision the following day. Who acts: Venezuelan Supreme Court, Court. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Venezuela» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Venezuela, sentence 425

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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 March 2017, the Venezuelan Supreme Court took over law-making powers from the National Assembly but reversed its decision the following day.

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**Who acts:** Venezuelan Supreme Court, Court · **What happens:** take over, make, reverse, follow, decide · **To what, where:** powers, National Assembly, decision

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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 (Venezuelan Supreme Court, Court), 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:425
# text = In March 2017, the Venezuelan Supreme Court took over law-making powers from the National Assembly but reversed its decision the following day.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Venezuelan	Venezuelan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Supreme	Supreme	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	reversed	reverse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take over** | past | the Venezuelan Supreme Court |  |  |  | march |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | the Venezuelan Supreme Court *not said here* | powers |  | the National Assembly |  | law *compound* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset power=Product from assembly=Material |
| 3 | **reverse** | past | the Venezuelan Supreme Court *not said here* | Court's decision |  |  | day |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent decision=Patient |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **decide** |  | Court |  |  |  |  |  | nom decision «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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