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title: From the late 18th century, Imperial Russia switched to a more aggre… — Azerbaijan · tree and pragmatics
description: From the late 18th century, Imperial Russia switched to a more aggressive geo-political stance towards Iran and the Ottoman Empire. Who acts: Imperial. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Azerbaijan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Azerbaijan, sentence 66

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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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From the late 18th century, Imperial Russia switched to a more aggressive geo-political stance towards Iran and the Ottoman Empire.

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**Who acts:** Imperial · **What happens:** switch

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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 (Imperial), 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:66
# text = From the late 18th century, Imperial Russia switched to a more aggressive geo-political stance towards Iran and the Ottoman Empire.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	18th	18th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Imperial	Imperial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	switched	switch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	aggressive	aggressive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
14	geo	geo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stance	stance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Ottoman	Ottoman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **switch** | past | Imperial |  |  |  | century | to a aggressive political stance towards Iran and the Ottoman Empire *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to stance=Result |

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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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