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title: 300 days of free movement were permitted, during which almost a mill… — Vietnam · tree and pragmatics
description: 300 days of free movement were permitted, during which almost a million northerners, including at least 500,000 Catholics and approximately 200,000 Buddhists, moved south, fearing persecution by the communists. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vietnam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vietnam, sentence 128

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From Wikipedia, [«Vietnam»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam), 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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300 days of free movement were permitted, during which almost a million northerners, including at least 500,000 Catholics and approximately 200,000 Buddhists, moved south, fearing persecution by the communists.

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**What happens:** permit, northerner, include, move, fear · **To what, where:** 300 days, persecution

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vietnam». 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:Vietnam:128
# text = 300 days of free movement were permitted, during which almost a million northerners, including at least 500,000 Catholics and approximately 200,000 Buddhists, moved south, fearing persecution by the communists.
1	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	permitted	permit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
11	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	northerners	northerner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	case	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	nmod	_	_
19	500,000	500,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	Catholics	Catholic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	200,000	200000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	Buddhists	Buddhist	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	south	south	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	advcl	_	_
30	persecution	persecution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	communists	communist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **permit** | past · passive |  | 300 days of free movement |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **northerner** |  |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; 500,000 Catholics and 200,000 Buddhists *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **move** | past |  |  |  |  |  | south *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fear** | gerund |  | persecution |  |  |  | by the communists | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer persecution=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, «Vietnam», 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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