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title: Taking advantage of the new political climate, the Armenians of the… — Armenia · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking advantage of the new political climate, the Armenians of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) of Soviet Azerbaijan began to demand unification with Soviet Armenia, citing discrimination by Baku. Who acts: Armenians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Armenia» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Armenia, sentence 183

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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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Taking advantage of the new political climate, the Armenians of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) of Soviet Azerbaijan began to demand unification with Soviet Armenia, citing discrimination by Baku.

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**Who acts:** Armenians · **What happens:** take, begin, demand, cite · **To what, where:** advantage, unification, discrimination

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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: who acts (Armenians), 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:183
# text = Taking advantage of the new political climate, the Armenians of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) of Soviet Azerbaijan began to demand unification with Soviet Armenia, citing discrimination by Baku.
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
2	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Armenians	Armenian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	Nagorno	Nagorno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Karabakh	Karabakh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	Autonomous	autonomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Oblast	oblast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	NKAO	NKAO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	demand	demand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	unification	unification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Armenia	Armenia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	citing	cite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
33	discrimination	discrimination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Baku	Baku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | the Armenians of the Karabakh Autonomous Oblast *not said here* | advantage of the new political climate |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the Armenians of the Karabakh Autonomous Oblast |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **demand** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | the Armenians of the Karabakh Autonomous Oblast *not said here* | unification |  |  |  | with Soviet Armenia | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme unification=Precondition |
| 4 | **cite** | gerund | the Armenians of the Karabakh Autonomous Oblast *not said here* | discrimination |  |  |  | by Baku | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discrimination=Theme |

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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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