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title: The decision was met by a public outcry and criticism from the Union… — Ulaanbaatar · tree and pragmatics
description: The decision was met by a public outcry and criticism from the Union of Mongolian Architects, which demanded that the buildings be preserved and restored. Who acts: public outcry, Mongolian Architects. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ulaanbaatar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ulaanbaatar, sentence 132

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From Wikipedia, [«Ulaanbaatar»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulaanbaatar), 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 decision was met by a public outcry and criticism from the Union of Mongolian Architects, which demanded that the buildings be preserved and restored.

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**Who acts:** public outcry, Mongolian Architects · **What happens:** meet, demand, preserve, restore · **To what, where:** decision, buildings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ulaanbaatar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (public outcry, Mongolian Architects), 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:Ulaanbaatar:132
# text = The decision was met by a public outcry and criticism from the Union of Mongolian Architects, which demanded that the buildings be preserved and restored.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	outcry	outcry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	criticism	criticism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Mongolian	Mongolian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Architects	architect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past · passive | a public outcry from the Union of Mongolian Architects and criticism | the decision |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | Mongolian Architects |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **preserve** | infinitive · passive |  | the buildings |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **restore** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Ulaanbaatar», 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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