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title: In battles they subdued the nations of all four sides of the world a… — Mongolia · tree and pragmatics
description: In battles they subdued the nations of all four sides of the world and suppressed them. Who acts: Lines. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mongolia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mongolia, sentence 60

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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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In battles they subdued the nations of all four sides of the world and suppressed them.

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**Who acts:** Lines · **What happens:** subdue, suppress · **To what, where:** nations, battles, Lines

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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 (Lines), 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:60
# text = In battles they subdued the nations of all four sides of the world and suppressed them.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	subdued	subdue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	suppressed	suppress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **subdue** | past | Lines *= line* | the nations of all four sides of the world |  | battles |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Patient |
| 2 | **suppress** | past | Lines *= line* *not said here* | Lines *= line* |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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