Tashkent, sentence 97

From Wikipedia, «Tashkent», 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.

Although the defense was stiff, the Russians captured the city after two days of heavy fighting and the loss of only 25 dead as opposed to several thousand of the defenders (including Alimqul, the ruler of the Kokand Khanate).

Who acts: Russians · What happens: be, capture, oppose, include · To what, where: city

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tashkent». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russians), 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	Although	although	SCONJ	_	3 defense	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 defense	det
3	defense	defense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stiff	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stiff	cop
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 captured	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Russians	det
8	Russians	Russian	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 captured	nsubj
9	captured	capture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stiff	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 captured	obj
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 days	case
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 days	nummod
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 captured	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 fighting	case
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fighting	amod
17	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 days	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 loss	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 loss	det
20	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fighting	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 dead	case
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 25	advmod
23	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 dead	nummod
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 loss	nmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 opposed	mark
26	opposed	oppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 captured	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 thousand	case
28	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thousand	amod
29	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 opposed	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 defenders	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 defenders	det
32	defenders	defender	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 thousand	nmod
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 Alimqul	punct
34	including	include	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 Alimqul	case
35	Alimqul	Alimqul	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 defenders	appos
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ruler	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ruler	det
38	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Alimqul	appos
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 Khanate	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Khanate	det
41	Kokand	Kokand	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Khanate	compound
42	Khanate	Khanate	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 ruler	nmod
43	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 Alimqul	punct
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stiff	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				although the defense; stiff property	tree rules
2	capture	past	the Russians	the city	day		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme
3	oppose	participle	the Russians not said here			to several thousand of the defenders	vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	include	gerund					vn involve-107.1 «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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Tashkent, sentence 97