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title: Mongolia joined the World Trade Organization in 1997 and seeks to ex… — Mongolia · tree and pragmatics
description: Mongolia joined the World Trade Organization in 1997 and seeks to expand its participation in regional economic and trade groups. Who acts: Mongolia, Organization. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mongolia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mongolia, sentence 23

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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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Mongolia joined the World Trade Organization in 1997 and seeks to expand its participation in regional economic and trade groups.

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**Who acts:** Mongolia, Organization · **What happens:** join, seek, expand, participate · **To what, where:** World Trade Organization, 1997, participation, regional economic trade groups

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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 (Mongolia, Organization), 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:23
# text = Mongolia joined the World Trade Organization in 1997 and seeks to expand its participation in regional economic and trade groups.
1	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Trade	Trade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Organization	Organization	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1997	1997	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	seeks	seek	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	expand	expand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	participation	participation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past | Mongolia | the World Trade Organization |  | 1997 |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent organization=Patient |
| 2 | **seek** | present | Mongolia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **expand** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mongolia *not said here* | Organization's participation |  | regional economic trade groups |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent participation=Patient |
| 4 | **participate** |  | Organization |  |  |  |  |  | nom participation «act intransitive»: 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, «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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