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title: It declared independence as the Republic of Uzbekistan in 1991 follo… — Uzbekistan · tree and pragmatics
description: It declared independence as the Republic of Uzbekistan in 1991 following the Soviet collapse. Who acts: delimitation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uzbekistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uzbekistan, sentence 20

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From Wikipedia, [«Uzbekistan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbekistan), 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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It declared independence as the Republic of Uzbekistan in 1991 following the Soviet collapse.

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**Who acts:** delimitation · **What happens:** declare, follow · **To what, where:** independence, 1991, Soviet collapse

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Uzbekistan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (delimitation), 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:Uzbekistan:20
# text = It declared independence as the Republic of Uzbekistan in 1991 following the Soviet collapse.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
11	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	collapse	collapse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | delimitation | independence |  | 1991 |  | as the Republic of Uzbekistan | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent independence=Theme as republic=Attribute |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | delimitation *not said here* | the Soviet collapse |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collapse=Theme |

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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, «Uzbekistan», 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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