Kazakhstan, sentence 86
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.
According to Charles Kurzman, Soviet historians sought to construct "safe" histories for the newly created republics.
Who acts: Soviet historians · What happens: accord, seek, construct, create · To what, where: safe histories
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 (Soviet historians), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 Charles | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sought | obl |
| 4 | Kurzman | Kurzman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Charles | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Charles | punct |
| 6 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 historians | compound |
| 7 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sought | nsubj |
| 8 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 construct | mark |
| 10 | construct | construct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sought | xcomp |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 safe | punct |
| 12 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 histories | amod |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 safe | punct |
| 14 | histories | history | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 construct | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 republics | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 republics | det |
| 17 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 18 created | advmod |
| 18 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 republics | amod |
| 19 | republics | republic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 construct | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | seek | past | Soviet historians | accord Charles | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | construct not said to happen | to-infinitive | Soviet historians not said here | safe histories | for the created republics | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent history=Result for republic=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | create | participle | newly property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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