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title: In 1963, Buddhist discontent with Diệm's perceived pro-Catholic bias… — Vietnam · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1963, Buddhist discontent with Diệm's perceived pro-Catholic bias erupted into mass demonstrations, leading to a violent government crackdown. Who acts: Buddhist discontent, Diệm. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vietnam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vietnam, sentence 141

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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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In 1963, Buddhist discontent with Diệm's perceived pro-Catholic bias erupted into mass demonstrations, leading to a violent government crackdown.

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**Who acts:** Buddhist discontent, Diệm · **What happens:** perceive, erupt, lead, bias · **To what, where:** perceived pro-Catholic bias, mass demonstrations, 1963

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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: who acts (Buddhist discontent, Diệm), 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:141
# text = In 1963, Buddhist discontent with Diệm's perceived pro-Catholic bias erupted into mass demonstrations, leading to a violent government crackdown.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1963	1963	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	discontent	discontent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	Diệm	Diệm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
10	pro-Catholic	pro-catholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bias	bias	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	erupted	erupt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	mass	mass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	demonstrations	demonstration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	crackdown	crackdown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **erupt** | participle |  | Diệm's perceived pro-Catholic bias *not said here* |  | mass demonstrations |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund | Buddhist discontent with Diệm's perceived pro-Catholic bias *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a violent government crackdown | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to crackdown=Patient |
| 5 | **bias** |  | Diệm |  |  |  |  |  | nom bias «cognition 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, «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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