--- title: The VPA is the official name for the active military services of Vie… — Vietnam · tree and pragmatics description: The VPA is the official name for the active military services of Vietnam, and is subdivided into the Vietnam People's Ground Forces, the Vietnam People's Navy, the Vietnam People's Air Force, the Vietnam Border Guard, and the Vietnam Coast Guard. Who acts: VPA. 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The VPA is the official name for the active military services of Vietnam, and is subdivided into the Vietnam People's Ground Forces, the Vietnam People's Navy, the Vietnam People's Air Force, the Vietnam Border Guard, and the Vietnam Coast Guard. **Who acts:** VPA · **What happens:** be, subdivide, service · **To what, where:** official name, Coast Guard, Ground Forces, Vietnam 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 (VPA), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:321 # text = The VPA is the official name for the active military services of Vietnam, and is subdivided into the Vietnam People's Ground Forces, the Vietnam People's Navy, the Vietnam People's Air Force, the Vietnam Border Guard, and the Vietnam Coast Guard. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 VPA VPA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 active active ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 services service NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Vietnam Vietnam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 subdivided subdivide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 Vietnam Vietnam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 People People PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 Ground Ground PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Forces Force PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 Vietnam Vietnam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 People People PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 Navy Navy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 Vietnam Vietnam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 People People PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 Air Air PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 Force Force PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 Vietnam Vietnam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Border Border PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 Guard Guard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 Vietnam Vietnam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 Coast Coast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 Guard Guard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the VPA | the official name | | | | for the active military services of Vietnam | tree rules | | 2 | **subdivide** | present · passive | the VPA *not said here* | the Coast Guard | | the Vietnam People's Ground Forces the Vietnam People's Navy and the Vietnam People's Air Force and the Border Guard | | | tree rules | | 3 | **service** | | | Vietnam | | | | | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 320](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vietnam/320/) - next →: [sentence 322](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vietnam/322/) - ↑ back to [Vietnam](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vietnam/)