Kazakhstan, sentence 185
From Wikipedia, «Kazakhstan», 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.
In the 19th century, the Russian Empire began to expand its influence into Central Asia.
Who acts: Russian Empire · What happens: begin, expand · To what, where: influence, Central Asia
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kazakhstan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian Empire), 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 | _ | 4 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 century | det |
| 3 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 century | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Empire | det |
| 7 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Empire | amod |
| 8 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 expand | mark |
| 11 | expand | expand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 influence | nmod:poss |
| 13 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 expand | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 Asia | case |
| 15 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Asia | flat |
| 16 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 expand | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Russian Empire | century | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | expand | to-infinitive | the Russian Empire not said here | Empire's influence | Central Asia | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent influence=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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