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title: In the 19th and early 20th centuries, oil wrestling champions such a… — Turkey · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 19th and early 20th centuries, oil wrestling champions such as Koca Yusuf, Nurullah Hasan and Kızılcıklı Mahmut acquired international fame in Europe and North America by winning world heavyweight wrestling championship titles. Who acts: wrestling champions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Turkey»
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# Turkey, sentence 636

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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 the 19th and early 20th centuries, oil wrestling champions such as Koca Yusuf, Nurullah Hasan and Kızılcıklı Mahmut acquired international fame in Europe and North America by winning world heavyweight wrestling championship titles.

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**Who acts:** wrestling champions · **What happens:** acquire, win, wrestle · **To what, where:** international fame, Europe, world heavyweight, championship titles

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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 (wrestling champions), 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:636
# text = In the 19th and early 20th centuries, oil wrestling champions such as Koca Yusuf, Nurullah Hasan and Kızılcıklı Mahmut acquired international fame in Europe and North America by winning world heavyweight wrestling championship titles.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	wrestling	wrestling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	champions	champion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	Koca	Koca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	Yusuf	Yusuf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Nurullah	Nurullah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	Hasan	Hasan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Kızılcıklı	Kızılcıklı	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	Mahmut	Mahmut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	acquired	acquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	heavyweight	heavyweight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	wrestling	wrestle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
35	championship	championship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	titles	title	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **acquire** | past | wrestling champions such Koca and Nurullah and Kızılcıklı | international fame |  | Europe and North America | century |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fame=Theme |
| 2 | **win** | gerund | wrestling champions such Koca and Nurullah and Kızılcıklı *not said here* | world heavyweight |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heavyweight=Eventuality |
| 3 | **wrestle** | gerund | wrestling champions such Koca and Nurullah and Kızılcıklı *not said here* | championship titles |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Co-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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