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title: Under the control of the Three Pashas, the Ottoman Empire entered Wo… — Turkey · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the control of the Three Pashas, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I in 1914, during which the Ottoman government committed genocides against its Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian subjects. Who acts: Ottoman Empire. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Turkey» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Turkey, sentence 18

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From Wikipedia, [«Turkey»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey), 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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Under the control of the Three Pashas, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I in 1914, during which the Ottoman government committed genocides against its Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian subjects.

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**Who acts:** Ottoman Empire · **What happens:** enter, genocide · **To what, where:** World War, control

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Turkey». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ottoman Empire), 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:Turkey:18
# text = Under the control of the Three Pashas, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I in 1914, during which the Ottoman government committed genocides against its Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian subjects.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	Pashas	pasha	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Ottoman	Ottoman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1914	1914	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	during	during	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	committed	committed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	genocides	genocide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
26	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	Armenian	Armenian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	Assyrian	assyrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the Ottoman Empire |  | World War | the control of the Three Pashas |  | in 1914; Assyrian subjects *obl*; I *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme war=Destination |
| 2 | **genocide** |  |  |  |  |  |  | against Empire's Armenian; which *nsubj*; the Ottoman government *nsubj* | 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, «Turkey», 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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