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title: Bulgarian media were described as generally unbiased in their report… — Bulgaria · tree and pragmatics
description: Bulgarian media were described as generally unbiased in their reporting in the early 2000s and print media had no legal restrictions. Who acts: outlets. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bulgaria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bulgaria, sentence 439

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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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Bulgarian media were described as generally unbiased in their reporting in the early 2000s and print media had no legal restrictions.

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**Who acts:** outlets · **What happens:** describe, unbias, have, report · **To what, where:** Bulgarian media, reporting, legal restrictions

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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 (outlets), 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:439
# text = Bulgarian media were described as generally unbiased in their reporting in the early 2000s and print media had no legal restrictions.
1	Bulgarian	bulgarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	unbiased	unbias	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	reporting	reporting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	2000s	2000	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	print	print	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
20	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	restrictions	restriction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | past · passive |  | Bulgarian media |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **unbias** | participle |  |  |  | outlets's reporting |  | in the early 2000s and print media; generally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | no legal restrictions |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent restriction=Patient |
| 4 | **report** |  | outlets *= outlet* |  |  |  |  |  | nom reporting «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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