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title: The process of international recognition of Azerbaijan's independenc… — Azerbaijan · tree and pragmatics
description: The process of international recognition of Azerbaijan's independence from the collapsing Soviet Union lasted roughly one year. as of 2007 the most recent country to recognize Azerbaijan was Bahrain, on 6 November 1996. Who acts: process. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Azerbaijan» with its dependency tr
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# Azerbaijan, sentence 219

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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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The process of international recognition of Azerbaijan's independence from the collapsing Soviet Union lasted roughly one year. as of 2007 the most recent country to recognize Azerbaijan was Bahrain, on 6 November 1996.

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**Who acts:** process · **What happens:** collapse, last, recognize, be, process · **To what, where:** 6, Azerbaijan Bahrain, international recognition, independence

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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 (process), 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:219
# text = The process of international recognition of Azerbaijan's independence from the collapsing Soviet Union lasted roughly one year. as of 2007 the most recent country to recognize Azerbaijan was Bahrain, on 6 November 1996.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	recognition	recognition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	collapsing	collapse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
13	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	recognize	recognize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
29	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	Bahrain	Bahrain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
35	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:unmarked	_	_
36	1996	1996	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collapse** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **last** | past | the process of international recognition of Azerbaijan's independence from the collapsing Soviet Union |  |  | 6  November  1996 | year | as 2007  the recent country | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **recognize** | to-infinitive | the process of international recognition of Azerbaijan's independence from the collapsing Soviet Union *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | Azerbaijan Bahrain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **process** |  |  | international recognition of Azerbaijan's independence from the collapsing Soviet Union |  |  |  |  | nom process «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **recognize** |  |  | Azerbaijan's independence from the collapsing Soviet Union |  |  |  |  | nom recognition «state transitive»: of=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, «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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