Dushanbe, sentence 148
From Wikipedia, «Dushanbe», 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.
Before the 20th century, the city had some vegetation such as bushes of Bukhara almonds, but the creation of the city mostly removed natural vegetation.
Who acts: city, creation · What happens: have, remove, create · To what, where: vegetation, natural vegetation, city
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dushanbe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, creation), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 4 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 century | det |
| 3 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 century | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 vegetation | det |
| 10 | vegetation | vegetation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 13 bushes | case |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | fixed |
| 13 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 vegetation | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 almonds | case |
| 15 | Bukhara | Bukhara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 almonds | compound |
| 16 | almonds | almond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bushes | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 removed | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 removed | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 creation | det |
| 20 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 removed | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 city | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 city | det |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 creation | nmod |
| 24 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 25 removed | advmod |
| 25 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 26 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 vegetation | amod |
| 27 | vegetation | vegetation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 removed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the city | some vegetation | century | such bushes of Bukhara almonds | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vegetation=Patient | ||
| 2 | remove | past | the creation of the city | natural vegetation | mostly property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vegetation=Theme | |||
| 3 | create | the city | nom creation «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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