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title: After the Japanese invasion of neighboring Manchuria in 1931, Mongol… — Mongolia · tree and pragmatics
description: After the Japanese invasion of neighboring Manchuria in 1931, Mongolia was threatened on this front. Who acts: Japanese invasion. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mongolia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mongolia, sentence 141

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From Wikipedia, [«Mongolia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia), 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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After the Japanese invasion of neighboring Manchuria in 1931, Mongolia was threatened on this front.

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**Who acts:** Japanese invasion · **What happens:** neighbor, threaten · **To what, where:** Manchuria, 1931, Mongolia, front

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mongolia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Japanese invasion), 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:Mongolia:141
# text = After the Japanese invasion of neighboring Manchuria in 1931, Mongolia was threatened on this front.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	Manchuria	Manchuria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1931	1931	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **neighbor** | gerund | the Japanese invasion *not said here* | Manchuria |  | 1931 |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme manchuria=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **threaten** | past · passive |  | Mongolia |  | this front | after the Japanese invasion |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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, «Mongolia», 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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