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title: In 2016, Vietnam's national life expectancy stood at 80.9 years for… — Vietnam · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2016, Vietnam's national life expectancy stood at 80.9 years for women and 71.5 for men, and the infant mortality rate was 17 per 1,000 live births. Who acts: national life expectancy, infant mortality rate, Vietnam. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vietnam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vietnam, sentence 537

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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 2016, Vietnam's national life expectancy stood at 80.9 years for women and 71.5 for men, and the infant mortality rate was 17 per 1,000 live births.

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**Who acts:** national life expectancy, infant mortality rate, Vietnam · **What happens:** stand, be, expect · **To what, where:** 2016, 17 per

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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 (national life expectancy, infant mortality rate, 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:537
# text = In 2016, Vietnam's national life expectancy stood at 80.9 years for women and 71.5 for men, and the infant mortality rate was 17 per 1,000 live births.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Vietnam	Vietnam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	expectancy	expectancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	80.9	80.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	71.5	71.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	14	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	mortality	mortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
28	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	births	birth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Vietnam's national life expectancy |  |  | 2016 | year | for women; for men | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in 2016=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the infant mortality rate | 17 per |  |  |  | 1,000 live births *nmod* | tree rules |
| 3 | **expect** |  | Vietnam |  |  |  |  |  | nom expectancy «feeling 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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