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title: According to The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "in terms… — Azerbaijan · tree and pragmatics
description: According to The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "in terms of ethnicity, culture and religion the Azerbaijani are musically much closer to Iran than Turkey." Who acts: terms. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Azerbaijan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Azerbaijan, sentence 419

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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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According to The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "in terms of ethnicity, culture and religion the Azerbaijani are musically much closer to Iran than Turkey."

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**Who acts:** terms · **What happens:** accord, be, term · **To what, where:** Iran, ethnicity

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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 (terms), 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:419
# text = According to The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "in terms of ethnicity, culture and religion the Azerbaijani are musically much closer to Iran than Turkey."
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Grove	Grove	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Dictionary	Dictionary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Music	Music	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Musicians	Musician	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ethnicity	ethnicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Azerbaijani	Azerbaijani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	musically	musically	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | terms of ethnicity and culture and religion  the Azerbaijani |  | Iran |  |  | accord the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; than Turkey; close *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **term** *in a quote* |  |  | ethnicity and culture and religion |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication 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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