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title: In March 1924, the first Armenian film studio; Armenfilm (Հայֆիլմ "H… — Yerevan · tree and pragmatics
description: In March 1924, the first Armenian film studio; Armenfilm (Հայֆիլմ "Hayfilm", Арменкино "Armenkino") was opened in Yerevan, starting with a documentary film called Soviet Armenia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yerevan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yerevan, sentence 457

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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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In March 1924, the first Armenian film studio; Armenfilm (Հայֆիլմ "Hayfilm", Арменкино "Armenkino") was opened in Yerevan, starting with a documentary film called Soviet Armenia.

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**What happens:** open, start, call · **To what, where:** first Armenian film studio, Yerevan, documentary film · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:457
# text = In March 1924, the first Armenian film studio; Armenfilm (Հայֆիլմ "Hayfilm", Арменкино "Armenkino") was opened in Yerevan, starting with a documentary film called Soviet Armenia.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
3	1924	1924	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
7	Armenian	Armenian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	studio	studio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Armenfilm	Armenfilm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Հայֆիլմ	Հայֆիլմ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Hayfilm	Hayfilm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Арменкино	Арменкино	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Armenkino	Armenkino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Yerevan	Yerevan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	documentary	documentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	xcomp	_	_
35	Armenia	Armenia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past · passive |  | the first Armenian film studio |  | Yerevan | march |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme in yerevan=Location |
| 2 | **start** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with a documentary film | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with film=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | a documentary film *not said here* |  |  |  | Soviet *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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