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title: Following the failed August 1991 coup attempt in Moscow, the country… — Kazakhstan · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the failed August 1991 coup attempt in Moscow, the country proclaimed full independence on 16 December 1991, becoming the last Soviet republic to do so. Who acts: country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kazakhstan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kazakhstan, sentence 235

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From Wikipedia, [«Kazakhstan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan), 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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Following the failed August 1991 coup attempt in Moscow, the country proclaimed full independence on 16 December 1991, becoming the last Soviet republic to do so.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** follow, fail, proclaim, become, do · **To what, where:** full independence, 16, last Soviet republic

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kazakhstan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country), 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:Kazakhstan:235
# text = Following the failed August 1991 coup attempt in Moscow, the country proclaimed full independence on 16 December 1991, becoming the last Soviet republic to do so.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
4	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
5	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
6	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
18	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **proclaim** | past | the country | full independence |  | 16  December |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | gerund | the country *not said here* | the last Soviet republic |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | the country *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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, «Kazakhstan», 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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