Turkmenistan, sentence 22
From Wikipedia, «Turkmenistan», 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.
After centuries of turmoil, over a thousand years later, in the 8th century AD, Turkic-speaking Oghuz tribes moved from Mongolia into present-day Central Asia.
Who acts: 8th century AD · What happens: speak, move · To what, where: Oghuz tribes, Mongolia · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Turkmenistan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (8th century AD), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 centuries | case |
| 2 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 moved | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 turmoil | case |
| 4 | turmoil | turmoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 centuries | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 years | punct |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thousand | det |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 later | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 moved | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 AD | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 AD | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 AD | det |
| 14 | 8th | 8th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 16 AD | amod |
| 15 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 AD | compound |
| 16 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moved | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Turkic | punct |
| 18 | Turkic | Turkic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 AD | appos |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Turkic | punct |
| 20 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 AD | acl |
| 21 | Oghuz | Oghuz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 tribes | compound |
| 22 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 speaking | obj |
| 23 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Mongolia | case |
| 25 | Mongolia | Mongolia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 moved | obl |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 day | case |
| 27 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 day | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 present | punct |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moved | obl |
| 30 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Asia | flat |
| 31 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 day | appos |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | gerund | the 8th century AD not said here | Oghuz tribes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | past | the 8th century AD | Mongolia | century; day | late property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from mongolia=Trajectory |
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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