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title: After gaining control over Alexandropol, the Turkish army was advanc… — Yerevan · tree and pragmatics
description: After gaining control over Alexandropol, the Turkish army was advancing towards the south and east to eliminate the centre of Armenian resistance based in Yerevan. Who acts: Turkish army. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yerevan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yerevan, sentence 176

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From Wikipedia, [«Yerevan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerevan), 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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After gaining control over Alexandropol, the Turkish army was advancing towards the south and east to eliminate the centre of Armenian resistance based in Yerevan.

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**Who acts:** Turkish army · **What happens:** gain, advance, eliminate, base · **To what, where:** control, Alexandropol, south, centre, Armenian resistance, Yerevan

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Yerevan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turkish army), 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:Yerevan:176
# text = After gaining control over Alexandropol, the Turkish army was advancing towards the south and east to eliminate the centre of Armenian resistance based in Yerevan.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	gaining	gain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Alexandropol	Alexandropol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	advancing	advance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	eliminate	eliminate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Armenian	Armenian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Yerevan	Yerevan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | gerund | the Turkish army *not said here* | control |  | Alexandropol |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme |
| 2 | **advance** | past · progressive | the Turkish army |  |  | the south and east |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards south=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **eliminate** | to-infinitive | the Turkish army *not said here* | the centre of Armenian resistance |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centre=Patient |
| 4 | **base** | participle |  | Armenian resistance *not said here* |  | Yerevan |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: 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, «Yerevan», 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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