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title: The new system initially failed to improve living standards or creat… — Bulgaria · tree and pragmatics
description: The new system initially failed to improve living standards or create economic growth—the average quality of life and economic performance remained lower than under communism well into the early 2000s. Who acts: new system, average quality. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bulgaria» with its dependency tr
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# Bulgaria, sentence 131

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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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The new system initially failed to improve living standards or create economic growth—the average quality of life and economic performance remained lower than under communism well into the early 2000s.

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**Who acts:** new system, average quality · **What happens:** fail, not improve, live, create, remain · **To what, where:** living standards, economic growth, early 2000s

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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 (new system, average quality), 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:131
# text = The new system initially failed to improve living standards or create economic growth—the average quality of life and economic performance remained lower than under communism well into the early 2000s.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	initially	initially	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	improve	improve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	standards	standard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	create	create	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	xcomp	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	communism	communism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	2000s	2000	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | past | the new system |  |  |  |  | initially *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **improve** | to-infinitive | the new system *not said here* | living standards |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent standard=Patient |
| 3 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **create** | present | the new system *not said here* | economic growth |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent growth=Result |
| 5 | **remain** | past | the average quality of life and economic performance |  |  | the early 2000s |  | low, well *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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