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title: By trading with the east and joining the EU, Turkey pursues economic… — Turkey · tree and pragmatics
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# Turkey, sentence 315

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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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By trading with the east and joining the EU, Turkey pursues economic growth.

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**Who acts:** Turkey · **What happens:** trade, join, pursue · **To what, where:** EU, economic growth

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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:315
# text = By trading with the east and joining the EU, Turkey pursues economic growth.
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	trading	trade	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	joining	join	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	EU	EU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pursues	pursue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trade** | gerund | Turkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the east | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with east=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **join** | gerund | Turkey *not said here* | the EU |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eu=Patient |
| 3 | **pursue** | present | Turkey | economic growth |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent growth=Theme |

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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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