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title: The most striking general characteristic of authentic ethnic Ukraini… — Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: The most striking general characteristic of authentic ethnic Ukrainian folk music is the wide use of minor modes or keys which incorporate augmented second intervals. Who acts: striking general characteristic, minor modes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ukraine» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ukraine, sentence 541

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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 most striking general characteristic of authentic ethnic Ukrainian folk music is the wide use of minor modes or keys which incorporate augmented second intervals.

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**Who acts:** striking general characteristic, minor modes · **What happens:** strike, be, incorporate, augment · **To what, where:** wide use, augmented second intervals

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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 (striking general characteristic, minor modes), 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:541
# text = The most striking general characteristic of authentic ethnic Ukrainian folk music is the wide use of minor modes or keys which incorporate augmented second intervals.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
4	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	authentic	authentic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	modes	mode	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	incorporate	incorporate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	augmented	augment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
24	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	intervals	interval	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the striking general characteristic of authentic ethnic Ukrainian folk music | the wide use |  |  |  | of minor modes or keys | tree rules |
| 3 | **incorporate** | present | minor modes or keys | augmented second intervals |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interval=Patient |
| 4 | **augment** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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