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title: The Bolsheviks consolidated control over much of the former empire a… — Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bolsheviks consolidated control over much of the former empire and established the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union in 1922. Who acts: Republic. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ukraine» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ukraine, sentence 13

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From Wikipedia, [«Ukraine»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine), 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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The Bolsheviks consolidated control over much of the former empire and established the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union in 1922.

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**Who acts:** Republic · **What happens:** consolidate, establish, become · **To what, where:** Republic, constituent republic, 1922, consolidated control

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ukraine». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Republic), 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:Ukraine:13
# text = The Bolsheviks consolidated control over much of the former empire and established the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union in 1922.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bolsheviks	bolshevik	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	consolidated	consolidate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Socialist	socialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	constituent	constituent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	1922	1922	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consolidate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **establish** | past |  | Republic  the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | past | Republic  the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist | a constituent republic of the Soviet Union |  |  |  | in 1922 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1922=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, «Ukraine», 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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