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title: Following the leaders, the entire Mongolian population embraced Budd… — Mongolia · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the leaders, the entire Mongolian population embraced Buddhism. Who acts: entire Mongolian population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mongolia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mongolia, sentence 93

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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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Following the leaders, the entire Mongolian population embraced Buddhism.

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**Who acts:** entire Mongolian population · **What happens:** follow, embrace · **To what, where:** Buddhism

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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 (entire Mongolian population), 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:93
# text = Following the leaders, the entire Mongolian population embraced Buddhism.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Mongolian	Mongolian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **embrace** | past | the entire Mongolian population | Buddhism |  |  |  | follow the leaders | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buddhism=Co-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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