Kazakhstan, sentence 45
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.
The main migrations of the Turkic peoples took place between the 5th and 11th centuries, during which Turkic-speaking groups spread across much of Central Asia.
Who acts: main migrations, speaking groups, Turkic peoples · What happens: take, speak, spread, migrate · To what, where: place, much · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (main migrations, speaking groups, Turkic peoples), 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 migrations | det |
| 2 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 migrations | amod |
| 3 | migrations | migration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 took | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 peoples | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 peoples | det |
| 6 | Turkic | Turkic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 peoples | compound |
| 7 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 migrations | nmod |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 centuries | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 centuries | det |
| 12 | 5th | 5th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 15 centuries | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 11th | cc |
| 14 | 11th | 11th | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 5th | conj |
| 15 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spread | punct |
| 17 | during | during | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 spread | obl |
| 19 | Turkic | Turkic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 speaking | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Turkic | punct |
| 21 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 groups | amod |
| 22 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 spread | nsubj |
| 23 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 24 | across | across | ADP | _ | 25 much | case |
| 25 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 spread | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Asia | case |
| 27 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Asia | flat |
| 28 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 much | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the main migrations of the Turkic peoples | place | century | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | Turkic compound | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spread | past | speaking groups | much of Central Asia | which obl | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across much=Destination | |||
| 4 | migrate | the Turkic peoples | nom migration «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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