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title: By 1991, economic and political turmoil began to boil over as the Ba… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: By 1991, economic and political turmoil began to boil over as the Baltic states chose to secede from the Soviet Union. Who acts: economic turmoil, Baltic states. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Russia, sentence 207

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From Wikipedia, [«Russia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia), 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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By 1991, economic and political turmoil began to boil over as the Baltic states chose to secede from the Soviet Union.

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**Who acts:** economic turmoil, Baltic states · **What happens:** begin, boil over, choose, secede · **To what, where:** Soviet Union

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Russia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (economic turmoil, Baltic states), 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:Russia:207
# text = By 1991, economic and political turmoil began to boil over as the Baltic states chose to secede from the Soviet Union.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	turmoil	turmoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Baltic	baltic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	secede	secede	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | economic turmoil |  |  |  |  | by 1991 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **boil over** | to-infinitive | economic turmoil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **choose** | past | the Baltic states |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **secede** | to-infinitive | the Baltic states *not said here* |  |  | the Soviet Union |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «Russia», 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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