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title: Germany sent a peacekeeping force to secure stability in the Balkans… — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: Germany sent a peacekeeping force to secure stability in the Balkans and sent German troops to Afghanistan as part of a NATO effort to provide security in that country after the ousting of the Taliban. Who acts: Germany. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Germany» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Germany, sentence 136

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From Wikipedia, [«Germany»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany), 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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Germany sent a peacekeeping force to secure stability in the Balkans and sent German troops to Afghanistan as part of a NATO effort to provide security in that country after the ousting of the Taliban.

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**Who acts:** Germany · **What happens:** send, secure, provide, oust · **To what, where:** peacekeeping force, stability, Balkans, German troops, Afghanistan, security

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Germany». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Germany), 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:Germany:136
# text = Germany sent a peacekeeping force to secure stability in the Balkans and sent German troops to Afghanistan as part of a NATO effort to provide security in that country after the ousting of the Taliban.
1	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	peacekeeping	peacekeeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	stability	stability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Balkans	Balkan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	NATO	NATO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
26	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	after	after	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ousting	ousting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Taliban	Taliban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Germany | a peacekeeping force |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Theme |
| 2 | **secure** | to-infinitive | Germany *not said here* | stability |  | the Balkans |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition stability=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past | Germany *not said here* | German troops | Afghanistan |  |  | as part of a NATO effort | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent troops=Theme to afghanistan=Destination |
| 4 | **provide** | to-infinitive | Germany *not said here* | security |  | that country after the ousting of the Taliban |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition security=Theme |
| 5 | **oust** |  |  | the Taliban |  |  |  |  | nom ousting «act 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, «Germany», 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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