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title: The legacy of the economic policies of the nineties was the mass pri… — Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: The legacy of the economic policies of the nineties was the mass privatisation of state property that created a class of extremely powerful and rich individuals known as the oligarchs. Who acts: legacy, state property. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ukraine» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ukraine, sentence 188

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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 legacy of the economic policies of the nineties was the mass privatisation of state property that created a class of extremely powerful and rich individuals known as the oligarchs.

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**Who acts:** legacy, state property · **What happens:** be, create, know · **To what, where:** mass privatisation, class, powerful individuals

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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 (legacy, state property), 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:188
# text = The legacy of the economic policies of the nineties was the mass privatisation of state property that created a class of extremely powerful and rich individuals known as the oligarchs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	legacy	legacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	policies	policy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nineties	ninety	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	mass	mass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	privatisation	privatisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	created	create	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	individuals	individual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
27	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	oligarchs	oligarch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the legacy of the economic policies of the nineties | the mass privatisation |  |  |  | of state property | tree rules |
| 2 | **create** | past | state property | a class of powerful individuals |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Result |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  | powerful individuals *not said here* |  |  |  | as the oligarchs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as oligarch=Attribute |

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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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