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title: The Fall of Communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union from 1… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fall of Communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991 marked the end of the Cold War and left the United States as the world's sole superpower. Who acts: Fall. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 148

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From Wikipedia, [«United States»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States), 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 Fall of Communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991 marked the end of the Cold War and left the United States as the world's sole superpower.

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**Who acts:** Fall · **What happens:** mark, leave, dissolve · **To what, where:** end, United States, Soviet Union

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United States». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fall), 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:United_States:148
# text = The Fall of Communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991 marked the end of the Cold War and left the United States as the world's sole superpower.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Communism	Communism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dissolution	dissolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1989	1989	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Cold	Cold	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	sole	sole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	superpower	superpower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | past | the Fall of Communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991 | the end of the Cold War |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent end=Destination |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the Fall of Communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991 *not said here* | the United States |  |  |  | as the world's sole superpower | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Theme |
| 3 | **dissolve** |  |  | the Soviet Union |  |  |  |  | nom dissolution «process transitive»: of=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, «United States», 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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