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title: On 23 April 1920, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey was establis… — Ankara · tree and pragmatics
description: On 23 April 1920, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey was established in Ankara, which became the headquarters of the Turkish National Movement during the Turkish War of Independence. Who acts: Ankara. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ankara» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ankara, sentence 7

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From Wikipedia, [«Ankara»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankara), 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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On 23 April 1920, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey was established in Ankara, which became the headquarters of the Turkish National Movement during the Turkish War of Independence.

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**Who acts:** Ankara · **What happens:** establish, become · **To what, where:** Grand National Assembly, 23, headquarters

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ankara». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ankara), 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:Ankara:7
# text = On 23 April 1920, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey was established in Ankara, which became the headquarters of the Turkish National Movement during the Turkish War of Independence.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
3	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1920	1920	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Ankara	Ankara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	18	xcomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Turkish	Turkish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Movement	Movement	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	during	during	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Turkish	Turkish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Independence	Independence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past · passive |  | the Grand National Assembly of Turkey |  | 23  1920  April |  | in Ankara | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on 23=Source |
| 2 | **become** | past | Ankara | the headquarters of the Turkish National Movement during the Turkish War of Independence |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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, «Ankara», 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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