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title: A large share of these contracts are awarded to a few politically co… — Bulgaria · tree and pragmatics
description: A large share of these contracts are awarded to a few politically connected companies amid widespread irregularities, procedure violations and tailor-made award criteria. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bulgaria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bulgaria, sentence 306

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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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A large share of these contracts are awarded to a few politically connected companies amid widespread irregularities, procedure violations and tailor-made award criteria.

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**What happens:** award, connect, make, share · **To what, where:** large share, few connected companies, contracts

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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: 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:306
# text = A large share of these contracts are awarded to a few politically connected companies amid widespread irregularities, procedure violations and tailor-made award criteria.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	contracts	contract	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	awarded	award	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	politically	politically	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	amid	amid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	irregularities	irregularity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	procedure	procedure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	violations	violation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
25	award	award	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	criteria	criterion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **award** | present · passive |  | a large share of this contracts |  |  |  | to a few connected companies and amid widespread irregularities and procedure violations and made award criteria *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to company=Goal |
| 2 | **connect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | politically *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | tailor *compound* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **share** |  |  | this contracts |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession 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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**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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