Ashgabat, sentence 185
From Wikipedia, «Ashgabat», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The 1959 census recorded a population of 169,900, which grew to 338,000 by 1983, including 105 nationalities, of which ethnic Armenians constituted 40 percent.
Who acts: 1959 census, population, ethnic Armenians · What happens: record, grow, include, constitute · To what, where: 40 percent
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 (1959 census, population, ethnic Armenians), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 census | det |
| 2 | 1959 | 1959 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 census | nummod |
| 3 | census | census | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recorded | nsubj |
| 4 | recorded | record | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 population | det |
| 6 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 169,900 | case |
| 8 | 169,900 | 169,900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 population | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recorded | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 338,000 | case |
| 13 | 338,000 | 338,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 grew | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 1983 | case |
| 15 | 1983 | 1983 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 grew | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 nationalities | punct |
| 17 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 nationalities | case |
| 18 | 105 | 105 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 nationalities | nummod |
| 19 | nationalities | nationality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 grew | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Armenians | punct |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 Armenians | obl |
| 23 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Armenians | amod |
| 24 | Armenians | Armenian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 nationalities | nmod |
| 25 | constituted | constitute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 Armenians | acl |
| 26 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 percent | nummod |
| 27 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 constituted | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recorded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | past | the 1959 census | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | a population of 169,900 | to 338,000 result; by 1983; include 105 nationalities ethnic Armenians of 105 nationalities ethnic Armenians of 105 nationalities; which nsubj | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient to 338,000=Result by 1983=Extent | ||||
| 3 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | constitute | participle | ethnic Armenians of 105 nationalities ethnic Armenians of 105 nationalities ethnic Armenians not said here | 40 percent | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme percent=Pivot |
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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