Bulgaria, sentence 131
From Wikipedia, «Bulgaria», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The new system initially failed to improve living standards or create economic growth—the average quality of life and economic performance remained lower than under communism well into the early 2000s.
Who acts: new system, average quality · What happens: fail, not improve, live, create, remain · To what, where: living standards, economic growth, early 2000s
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bulgaria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new system, average quality), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 system | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 system | amod |
| 3 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 failed | nsubj |
| 4 | initially | initially | ADV | _ | 5 failed | advmod |
| 5 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 improve | mark |
| 7 | improve | improve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 failed | xcomp |
| 8 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 standards | amod |
| 9 | standards | standard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 improve | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 create | cc |
| 11 | create | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 failed | conj |
| 12 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 growth | amod |
| 13 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 create | obj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 quality | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 quality | det |
| 16 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 quality | amod |
| 17 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 remained | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 quality | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 performance | cc |
| 21 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 performance | amod |
| 22 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 quality | conj |
| 23 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 failed | parataxis |
| 24 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 remained | xcomp |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 communism | case |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 27 communism | case |
| 27 | communism | communism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lower | obl |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 remained | advmod |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 2000s | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 2000s | det |
| 31 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 2000s | amod |
| 32 | 2000s | 2000 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 23 remained | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 failed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | past | the new system | initially property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not improve | to-infinitive | the new system not said here | living standards | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent standard=Patient | ||||
| 3 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | create | present | the new system not said here | economic growth | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent growth=Result | ||||
| 5 | remain | past | the average quality of life and economic performance | the early 2000s | low, well property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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