Ashgabat, sentence 173
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In 1871, a Russian visitor named Strebnitskiy counted over four thousand "nomad tents" (yurts), implying a population of 16 to 20 thousand Ahal Teke Turkmen, many of whom were killed or dispersed in the 1881 Battle of Geok Tepe.
Who acts: Russian visitor · What happens: name, count, imply, kill, disperse · To what, where: Russian visitor, thousand nomad tents, 1871, population, many, 1881 Battle
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ashgabat». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian visitor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1871 | case |
| 2 | 1871 | 1871 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 counted | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1871 | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 visitor | det |
| 5 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 visitor | amod |
| 6 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 counted | nsubj |
| 7 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 visitor | acl |
| 8 | Strebnitskiy | Strebnitskiy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 named | xcomp |
| 9 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 thousand | advmod |
| 11 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 thousand | compound |
| 12 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 tents | nummod |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 tents | punct |
| 14 | nomad | nomad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tents | compound |
| 15 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 counted | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 tents | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 yurts | punct |
| 18 | yurts | yurt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tents | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 yurts | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 implying | punct |
| 21 | implying | imply | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 counted | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 population | det |
| 23 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 implying | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 thousand | case |
| 25 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 thousand | compound |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 20 | case |
| 27 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 16 | nmod |
| 28 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 population | nmod |
| 29 | Ahal | Ahal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 thousand | nmod:unmarked |
| 30 | Teke | Teke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Ahal | flat |
| 31 | Turkmen | Turkmen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Ahal | flat |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 killed | punct |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 killed | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 whom | case |
| 35 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 many | nmod |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 killed | aux:pass |
| 37 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 population | acl |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 dispersed | cc |
| 39 | dispersed | disperse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 killed | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 Battle | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Battle | det |
| 42 | 1881 | 1881 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 Battle | nummod |
| 43 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 dispersed | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Geok | case |
| 45 | Geok | Geok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Battle | nmod |
| 46 | Tepe | Tepe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Geok | flat |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | a Russian visitor not said here | Strebnitskiy xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | count | past | a Russian visitor | thousand nomad tents | 1871 | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Theme | |||
| 3 | imply | gerund | a Russian visitor not said here | a population of 16 thousand Ahal | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot population=Topic | ||||
| 4 | kill | past · passive | many | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | disperse | participle | the 1881 Battle of Geok | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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