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title: The "tsam" is danced to keep away evil spirits and it was seen as re… — Mongolia · tree and pragmatics
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# Mongolia, sentence 384

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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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The "tsam" is danced to keep away evil spirits and it was seen as reminiscent of shamanism.

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**What happens:** dance, keep away, see · **To what, where:** tsam, evil spirits

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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: 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:384
# text = The "tsam" is danced to keep away evil spirits and it was seen as reminiscent of shamanism.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	tsam	tsam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	danced	dance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	reminiscent	reminiscent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	shamanism	shamanism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | present · passive |  | the tsam |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **keep away** | to-infinitive |  | evil spirits |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past · passive |  | tsam |  |  |  | as reminiscent of shamanism | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as reminiscent=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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