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title: Bulgaria was known as a "Communist Silicon Valley" during the Soviet… — Bulgaria · tree and pragmatics
description: Bulgaria was known as a "Communist Silicon Valley" during the Soviet era due to its key role in COMECON computing technology production. Who acts: key role. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bulgaria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bulgaria, sentence 339

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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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Bulgaria was known as a "Communist Silicon Valley" during the Soviet era due to its key role in COMECON computing technology production.

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**Who acts:** key role · **What happens:** know, compute · **To what, where:** Bulgaria, technology production

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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 (key role), 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:339
# text = Bulgaria was known as a "Communist Silicon Valley" during the Soviet era due to its key role in COMECON computing technology production.
1	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Communist	communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Silicon	Silicon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	COMECON	COMECON	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	computing	compute	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
23	technology	technology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | Bulgaria |  |  | during the Soviet era | as a Communist Silicon Valley; due era's key role in COMECON | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as valley=Attribute |
| 2 | **compute** | gerund | era's key role in COMECON *not said here* | technology production |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent production=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, «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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