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title: Under the Mongolian People's Republic, socialist realism was the dom… — Mongolia · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the Mongolian People's Republic, socialist realism was the dominant painting style, however traditional thangka-like paintings dealing with secular, nationalist themes were also popular, a genre known as "Mongol zurag". Who acts: socialist realism, like paintings, secular nationalist themes. A
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# Mongolia, sentence 377

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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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Under the Mongolian People's Republic, socialist realism was the dominant painting style, however traditional thangka-like paintings dealing with secular, nationalist themes were also popular, a genre known as "Mongol zurag".

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**Who acts:** socialist realism, like paintings, secular nationalist themes · **What happens:** be, deal, know · **To what, where:** dominant painting style, genre

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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 (socialist realism, like paintings, secular nationalist themes), 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:377
# text = Under the Mongolian People's Republic, socialist realism was the dominant painting style, however traditional thangka-like paintings dealing with secular, nationalist themes were also popular, a genre known as "Mongol zurag".
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Mongolian	Mongolian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	People	People	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	socialist	socialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	realism	realism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	dominant	dominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	however	however	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	_
18	thangka	thangka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
24	secular	secular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	nationalist	nationalist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	themes	theme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	also	also	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	genre	genre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
34	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Mongol	mongol	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	zurag	zurag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Mongolian People's Republic's socialist realism | the dominant painting style |  |  |  | traditional *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **deal** | gerund | like paintings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | secular nationalist themes |  |  |  |  | a genre *appos*; popular *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  | a genre *not said here* |  |  |  | as Mongol zurag | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as zurag=Attribute |

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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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