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title: During World War I, up to 1.5 million Armenians were systematically… — Armenia · tree and pragmatics
description: During World War I, up to 1.5 million Armenians were systematically exterminated in the Armenian genocide. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Armenia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Armenia, sentence 14

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From Wikipedia, [«Armenia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia), 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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During World War I, up to 1.5 million Armenians were systematically exterminated in the Armenian genocide.

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**What happens:** exterminate · **To what, where:** I, Armenian genocide

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Armenia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Armenia:14
# text = During World War I, up to 1.5 million Armenians were systematically exterminated in the Armenian genocide.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	1.5	1.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	Armenians	armenian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	systematically	systematically	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	exterminated	exterminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Armenian	Armenian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	genocide	genocide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exterminate** | past · passive |  | I |  | the Armenian genocide | during World War | systematically *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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, «Armenia», 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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