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title: In March 2018, the Armenian parliament elected Armen Sarkissian as t… — Armenia · tree and pragmatics
description: In March 2018, the Armenian parliament elected Armen Sarkissian as the new President of Armenia. Who acts: Armenian parliament. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Armenia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Armenia, sentence 209

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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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In March 2018, the Armenian parliament elected Armen Sarkissian as the new President of Armenia.

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**Who acts:** Armenian parliament · **What happens:** elect · **To what, where:** Armen

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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 (Armenian parliament), 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:209
# text = In March 2018, the Armenian parliament elected Armen Sarkissian as the new President of Armenia.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Armenian	armenian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	elected	elect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Armen	Armen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	Sarkissian	Sarkissian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Armenia	Armenia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elect** | past | the Armenian parliament | Armen |  |  | march | as the new President of Armenia | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent armen=Theme as president=Attribute |

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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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