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title: Vietnam is a unitary communist state that self-designates as a socia… — Vietnam · tree and pragmatics
description: Vietnam is a unitary communist state that self-designates as a socialist republic, one of the two communist states (the other being Laos) in Southeast Asia. Who acts: Vietnam. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vietnam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vietnam, sentence 245

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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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Vietnam is a unitary communist state that self-designates as a socialist republic, one of the two communist states (the other being Laos) in Southeast Asia.

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**Who acts:** Vietnam · **What happens:** be, designate · **To what, where:** unitary communist state, Southeast Asia, other Laos

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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 (Vietnam), 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:245
# text = Vietnam is a unitary communist state that self-designates as a socialist republic, one of the two communist states (the other being Laos) in Southeast Asia.
1	Vietnam	Vietnam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	unitary	unitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	communist	communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	designates	designate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	socialist	socialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	communist	communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
26	Laos	Laos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Southeast	Southeast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Vietnam | a unitary communist state |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **designate** | present | Vietnam *not said here* |  |  | Southeast Asia |  | as a socialist republic; self *compound* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as republic=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund |  | the other Laos |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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