Dushanbe, sentence 40
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.
The first time Dushanbe appeared in the historical record was in 1676, in a letter sent from the Balkh khan Subhonquli Bahodur to Fyodor III, the Tsar of Russia.
Who acts: Dushanbe · What happens: appear, be, send · To what, where: letter, 1676, Fyodor, Balkh khan
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 (Dushanbe), 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 time | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Dushanbe | Dushanbe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 record | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 record | det |
| 8 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 record | amod |
| 9 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 1676 | obl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 1676 | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1676 | case |
| 12 | 1676 | 1676 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 appeared | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 letter | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 letter | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 letter | det |
| 16 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 letter | acl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 khan | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 khan | det |
| 20 | Balkh | Balkh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 khan | compound |
| 21 | khan | khan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obl |
| 22 | Subhonquli | Subhonquli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 khan | appos |
| 23 | Bahodur | Bahodur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Subhonquli | flat |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Fyodor | case |
| 25 | Fyodor | Fyodor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obl |
| 26 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 25 Fyodor | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Tsar | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Tsar | det |
| 29 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Fyodor | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Russia | case |
| 31 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Tsar | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Dushanbe | a letter | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in letter=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | 1676 | in the historical record | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | participle | a letter not said here | Fyodor | the Balkh khan | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from khan=Initial_Location to fyodor=Destination |
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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