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title: Ukraine's new president, Leonid Kravchuk, went on to sign the Belave… — Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: Ukraine's new president, Leonid Kravchuk, went on to sign the Belavezha Accords and made Ukraine a founding member of the much looser Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), though Ukraine never became a full member of the latter as it did not ratify the agreement founding CIS. Who acts: new presi
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# Ukraine, sentence 182

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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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Ukraine's new president, Leonid Kravchuk, went on to sign the Belavezha Accords and made Ukraine a founding member of the much looser Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), though Ukraine never became a full member of the latter as it did not ratify the agreement founding CIS.

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**Who acts:** new president, Ukraine, president, agreement · **What happens:** go on, sign, make, found, not become, not ratify · **To what, where:** Belavezha Accords, founding member, Ukraine, full member, agreement, CIS

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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 (new president, Ukraine, president, agreement), 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:182
# text = Ukraine's new president, Leonid Kravchuk, went on to sign the Belavezha Accords and made Ukraine a founding member of the much looser Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), though Ukraine never became a full member of the latter as it did not ratify the agreement founding CIS.
1	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Leonid	Leonid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	Kravchuk	Kravchuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sign	sign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Belavezha	Belavezha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Accords	Accord	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	founding	found	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	looser	loose	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Independent	Independent	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	CIS	CIS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	xcomp	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	nmod	_	_
44	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
48	ratify	ratify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	founding	found	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	50	acl	_	_
52	CIS	CIS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | Ukraine's new president |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sign** | to-infinitive | Ukraine's new president *not said here* | the Belavezha Accords |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent accord=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | Ukraine's new president *not said here* | a founding member of the much looser Commonwealth of Independent States and CIS | Ukraine |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset ukraine=Beneficiary member=Product |
| 4 | **found** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **become** | past | Ukraine | a full member of the latter |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **ratify** | past · do-support | president | the agreement |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **found** | gerund | the agreement *not said here* | CIS |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cis=Patient |

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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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