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title: At the beginning of 2009, Slovakia faced energy crisis and declared… — Slovakia · tree and pragmatics
description: At the beginning of 2009, Slovakia faced energy crisis and declared a state of emergency, after Russia cut gas supplies to Europe via Ukrainian pipelines as part of a price dispute with Ukraine. Who acts: Slovakia, Russia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Slovakia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Slovakia, sentence 252

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From Wikipedia, [«Slovakia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia), 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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At the beginning of 2009, Slovakia faced energy crisis and declared a state of emergency, after Russia cut gas supplies to Europe via Ukrainian pipelines as part of a price dispute with Ukraine.

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**Who acts:** Slovakia, Russia · **What happens:** face, declare, cut · **To what, where:** energy crisis, beginning, state, gas supplies, Europe

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Slovakia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Slovakia, Russia), 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:Slovakia:252
# text = At the beginning of 2009, Slovakia faced energy crisis and declared a state of emergency, after Russia cut gas supplies to Europe via Ukrainian pipelines as part of a price dispute with Ukraine.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Slovakia	Slovakia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	supplies	supplies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	via	via	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	pipelines	pipeline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | past | Slovakia | energy crisis |  |  | at the beginning of 2009 |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent crisis=Destination |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Slovakia *not said here* | a state of emergency |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Attribute |
| 3 | **cut** | past | Russia | gas supplies | Europe |  |  | via Ukrainian pipelines; as part of a price dispute with Ukraine | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent supplies=Patient to europe=Result |

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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, «Slovakia», 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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