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title: In the years following independence, Bulgaria increasingly militaris… — Bulgaria · tree and pragmatics
description: In the years following independence, Bulgaria increasingly militarised and was often referred to as "the Balkan Prussia". Who acts: Bulgaria. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bulgaria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bulgaria, sentence 106

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From Wikipedia, [«Bulgaria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria), 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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In the years following independence, Bulgaria increasingly militarised and was often referred to as "the Balkan Prussia".

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**Who acts:** Bulgaria · **What happens:** follow, militaris, refer

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bulgaria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bulgaria), 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:Bulgaria:106
# text = In the years following independence, Bulgaria increasingly militarised and was often referred to as "the Balkan Prussia".
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	increasingly	increasingly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	militarised	militaris	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Balkan	Balkan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Prussia	Prussia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **militaris** | participle | Bulgaria |  |  |  | year | increasingly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **refer** | past · passive | Bulgaria *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the Balkan Prussia; often *property* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme» |

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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, «Bulgaria», 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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