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title: After fighting as part of the UN forces in the Korean War, Turkey jo… — Turkey · tree and pragmatics
description: After fighting as part of the UN forces in the Korean War, Turkey joined NATO in 1952, becoming a bulwark against Soviet expansion into the Mediterranean. Who acts: Turkey. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Turkey» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Turkey, sentence 188

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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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After fighting as part of the UN forces in the Korean War, Turkey joined NATO in 1952, becoming a bulwark against Soviet expansion into the Mediterranean.

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**Who acts:** Turkey · **What happens:** fight, join, become · **To what, where:** NATO, 1952, bulwark, Mediterranean

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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 (Turkey), 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:188
# text = After fighting as part of the UN forces in the Korean War, Turkey joined NATO in 1952, becoming a bulwark against Soviet expansion into the Mediterranean.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Korean	Korean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	NATO	NATO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1952	1952	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bulwark	bulwark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
23	against	against	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	expansion	expansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | gerund | Turkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as part of the UN forces in the Korean War | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **join** | past | Turkey | NATO |  | 1952 |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nato=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | gerund | Turkey *not said here* | a bulwark against Soviet expansion |  |  |  | into the Mediterranean *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into mediterranean=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, «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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