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title: When the city became the capital of the new Mongolian People's Repub… — Ulaanbaatar · tree and pragmatics
description: When the city became the capital of the new Mongolian People's Republic on 29 October 1924, its name was changed to Ulaanbaatar (lit. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ulaanbaatar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ulaanbaatar, sentence 22

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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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When the city became the capital of the new Mongolian People's Republic on 29 October 1924, its name was changed to Ulaanbaatar (lit.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** become, change, lit, name · **To what, where:** capital, 29, name, Ulaanbaatar

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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 (city), 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:22
# text = When the city became the capital of the new Mongolian People's Republic on 29 October 1924, its name was changed to Ulaanbaatar (lit.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Mongolian	Mongolian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
16	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	1924	1924	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Ulaanbaatar	Ulaanbaatar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the city | the capital of the new Mongolian People's Republic |  | 29  October |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **change** | past · passive |  | city's name | Ulaanbaatar |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **lit** | participle |  | Ulaanbaatar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  | city |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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