Astana, sentence 242
From Wikipedia, «Astana», 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 strategic geographical positioning of Astana allows the city to serve as a transport and reload centre for cargoes formed at adjacent stations in the area.
Who acts: strategic geographical positioning · What happens: allow, serve, form, position · To what, where: city, cargoes, adjacent stations, Astana
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Astana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strategic geographical positioning), 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 | 4 positioning | det |
| 2 | strategic | strategic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 positioning | amod |
| 3 | geographical | geographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 positioning | amod |
| 4 | positioning | positioning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 allows | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Astana | case |
| 6 | Astana | Astana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 positioning | nmod |
| 7 | allows | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 allows | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 serve | mark |
| 11 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 allows | advcl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 transport | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 transport | det |
| 14 | transport | transport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 serve | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 centre | cc |
| 16 | reload | reload | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 centre | compound |
| 17 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 transport | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 cargoes | case |
| 19 | cargoes | cargo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 centre | nmod |
| 20 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 cargoes | acl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 stations | case |
| 22 | adjacent | adjacent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stations | amod |
| 23 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 formed | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 area | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 area | det |
| 26 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stations | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 allows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | present | the strategic geographical positioning of Astana | the city | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | serve | to-infinitive | the strategic geographical positioning of Astana not said here | as a transport and reload centre for cargoes | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as transport=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | form | participle | cargoes not said here | adjacent stations in the area | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at station=Location | ||||
| 4 | position | Astana | nom positioning «act transitive»: of=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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