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title: In its 2023 report, the European Commission criticized how democrati… — Turkey · tree and pragmatics
description: In its 2023 report, the European Commission criticized how democratic institutions in Turkey operate. Who acts: European Commission, democratic institutions, Parliament. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Turkey» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Turkey, sentence 297

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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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In its 2023 report, the European Commission criticized how democratic institutions in Turkey operate.

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**Who acts:** European Commission, democratic institutions, Parliament · **What happens:** criticize, operate, report · **To what, where:** 2023 report

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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 (European Commission, democratic institutions, Parliament), 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:297
# text = In its 2023 report, the European Commission criticized how democratic institutions in Turkey operate.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Commission	Commission	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	criticized	criticize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	democratic	democratic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	institutions	institution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	operate	operate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **criticize** | past | the European Commission |  |  | Parliament's 2023 report |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **operate** | present | democratic institutions in Turkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **report** |  | Parliament |  |  |  |  |  | nom report «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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