Turkey, sentence 188
From Wikipedia, «Turkey», 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.
After fighting as part of the UN forces in the Korean War, Turkey joined NATO in 1952, becoming a bulwark against Soviet expansion into the Mediterranean.
Who acts: Turkey · What happens: fight, join, become · To what, where: NATO, 1952, bulwark, Mediterranean
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Turkey». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turkey), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 fighting | mark |
| 2 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 joined | advcl |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 part | case |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fighting | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 forces | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forces | det |
| 7 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 forces | compound |
| 8 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 part | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 War | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 War | det |
| 11 | Korean | Korean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 War | compound |
| 12 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 forces | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fighting | punct |
| 14 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 joined | nsubj |
| 15 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | NATO | NATO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 joined | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1952 | case |
| 18 | 1952 | 1952 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 joined | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 becoming | punct |
| 20 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 joined | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bulwark | det |
| 22 | bulwark | bulwark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 becoming | xcomp |
| 23 | against | against | ADP | _ | 25 expansion | case |
| 24 | Soviet | soviet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 expansion | amod |
| 25 | expansion | expansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bulwark | nmod |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 Mediterranean | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Mediterranean | det |
| 28 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 becoming | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | gerund | Turkey not said here | as part of the UN forces in the Korean War | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | join | past | Turkey | NATO | 1952 | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nato=Patient | |||
| 3 | become | gerund | Turkey not said here | a bulwark against Soviet expansion | into the Mediterranean result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into mediterranean=Result |
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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