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title: As many as 20,000 Azerbaijani soldiers died resisting what was effec… — Azerbaijan · tree and pragmatics
description: As many as 20,000 Azerbaijani soldiers died resisting what was effectively a Russian reconquest. Who acts: many 20,000 Azerbaijani soldiers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Azerbaijan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Azerbaijan, sentence 87

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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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As many as 20,000 Azerbaijani soldiers died resisting what was effectively a Russian reconquest.

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**Who acts:** many 20,000 Azerbaijani soldiers · **What happens:** die, resist, be · **To what, where:** Russian reconquest

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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 (many 20,000 Azerbaijani soldiers), 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:87
# text = As many as 20,000 Azerbaijani soldiers died resisting what was effectively a Russian reconquest.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	20,000	20000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	Azerbaijani	Azerbaijani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	resisting	resist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	effectively	effectively	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	reconquest	reconquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | many 20,000 Azerbaijani soldiers |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **resist** | gerund | many 20,000 Azerbaijani soldiers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | a Russian reconquest |  |  |  | what *nsubj*; effectively *property* | tree rules |

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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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