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title: Following the politics of glasnost initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, c… — Azerbaijan · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the politics of glasnost initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, civil unrest and ethnic strife grew in various regions of the Soviet Union, including Nagorno-Karabakh, an autonomous region of the Azerbaijan SSR. Who acts: civil unrest. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Azerbaijan» with its dependency tr
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# Azerbaijan, sentence 100

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From Wikipedia, [«Azerbaijan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan), 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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Following the politics of glasnost initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, civil unrest and ethnic strife grew in various regions of the Soviet Union, including Nagorno-Karabakh, an autonomous region of the Azerbaijan SSR.

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**Who acts:** civil unrest · **What happens:** follow, initiate, grow · **To what, where:** politics, various regions

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Azerbaijan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (civil unrest), 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:Azerbaijan:100
# text = Following the politics of glasnost initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, civil unrest and ethnic strife grew in various regions of the Soviet Union, including Nagorno-Karabakh, an autonomous region of the Azerbaijan SSR.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	glasnost	glasnost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	initiated	initiate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mikhail	Mikhail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
9	Gorbachev	Gorbachev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	unrest	unrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	including	including	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Nagorno	Nagorno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Karabakh	Karabakh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	autonomous	autonomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	SSR	SSR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **initiate** | participle |  | the politics of glasnost *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | past | civil unrest and ethnic strife |  |  | various regions of the Soviet Union |  | by Mikhail; including Nagorno and Karabakh | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by mikhail=Location |

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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, «Azerbaijan», 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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