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title: Due to its extensive fertile land, the country is an important expor… — Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: Due to its extensive fertile land, the country is an important exporter of grain, though grain production has declined since 2022 due to the Russo-Ukrainian war, endangering global food security. Who acts: country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ukraine» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ukraine, sentence 23

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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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Due to its extensive fertile land, the country is an important exporter of grain, though grain production has declined since 2022 due to the Russo-Ukrainian war, endangering global food security.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** be, decline, endanger · **To what, where:** important exporter, grain production, global food security

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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 (country), 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:23
# text = Due to its extensive fertile land, the country is an important exporter of grain, though grain production has declined since 2022 due to the Russo-Ukrainian war, endangering global food security.
1	Due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	exporter	exporter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	declined	decline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
22	since	since	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
24	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	30	case	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	Russo	Russo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	endangering	endanger	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
33	global	global	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the country | a important exporter |  |  |  | due economy's extensive fertile land; of grain | tree rules |
| 2 | **decline** | present · perfect · passive |  | grain production |  |  | since 2022 | due the Russo Ukrainian war | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **endanger** | gerund |  | global food security |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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