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title: In April 1995, the Soviet 14th Guards Army became the Operational Gr… — Transnistria · tree and pragmatics
description: In April 1995, the Soviet 14th Guards Army became the Operational Group of Russian Forces, which by the 2010s had shrunk to two battalions and no more than 1,500 troops. Who acts: Guards Army. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Transnistria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Transnistria, sentence 147

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From Wikipedia, [«Transnistria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria), 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 April 1995, the Soviet 14th Guards Army became the Operational Group of Russian Forces, which by the 2010s had shrunk to two battalions and no more than 1,500 troops.

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**Who acts:** Guards Army · **What happens:** become, shrink · **To what, where:** Operational Group

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Transnistria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guards Army), 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:Transnistria:147
# text = In April 1995, the Soviet 14th Guards Army became the Operational Group of Russian Forces, which by the 2010s had shrunk to two battalions and no more than 1,500 troops.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	1995	1995	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	14th	14th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	Guards	Guard	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	compound	_	_
9	Army	Army	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Operational	operational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	2010s	2010	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	shrunk	shrink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	battalions	battalion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	no	no	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	31	advmod	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	1,500	1,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the Guards Army | the Operational Group of Russian Forces |  |  | april |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **shrink** | past · perfect |  | the Operational Group of Russian Forces |  |  |  | by the 2010s; to two battalions and 1,500 troops *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent which=Patient to battalion=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, «Transnistria», 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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