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title: When Azerbaijan gained independence after the dissolution of the Sov… — Azerbaijan · tree and pragmatics
description: When Azerbaijan gained independence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan were created according to the law on the armed forces of 9 October 1991. Who acts: Azerbaijan, dissolution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Azerbaijan» with its dependency tree an
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# Azerbaijan, sentence 237

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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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When Azerbaijan gained independence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan were created according to the law on the armed forces of 9 October 1991.

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**Who acts:** Azerbaijan, dissolution · **What happens:** gain, create, accord · **To what, where:** independence, Armed Forces

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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 (Azerbaijan, dissolution), 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:237
# text = When Azerbaijan gained independence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan were created according to the law on the armed forces of 9 October 1991.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dissolution	dissolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
23	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	case	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | past | Azerbaijan | independence |  |  | after the dissolution |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Theme |
| 2 | **create** | past · passive | the dissolution *not said here* | the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan |  | the armed forces of 9 October |  | of the Soviet Union; accord the law | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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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