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title: On 2 July 1976, North and South Vietnam were merged to form the Soci… — Vietnam · tree and pragmatics
description: On 2 July 1976, North and South Vietnam were merged to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vietnam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vietnam, sentence 159

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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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On 2 July 1976, North and South Vietnam were merged to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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**What happens:** merge, form · **To what, where:** Socialist

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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:159
# text = On 2 July 1976, North and South Vietnam were merged to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	1976	1976	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	Vietnam	Vietnam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	merged	merge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Socialist	socialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Vietnam	Vietnam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **merge** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | july |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | to-infinitive |  | the Socialist |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location socialist=Theme |

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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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