Turkmenistan, sentence 252
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.
On 21 January 2021, the governments of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop an oil field in the Caspian Sea that straddles the nations' border.
Who acts: governments, oil field · What happens: sign, develop, straddle · To what, where: memorandum, 21, oil field, Caspian Sea, border
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 (governments, oil field), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 21 | case |
| 2 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 signed | obl |
| 3 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 2021 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 21 | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 21 | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 governments | det |
| 7 | governments | government | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 signed | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Azerbaijan | case |
| 9 | Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 governments | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Turkmenistan | cc |
| 11 | Turkmenistan | Turkmenistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Azerbaijan | conj |
| 12 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 memorandum | det |
| 14 | memorandum | memorandum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 signed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 understanding | case |
| 16 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 memorandum | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 develop | mark |
| 18 | jointly | jointly | ADV | _ | 19 develop | advmod |
| 19 | develop | develop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 signed | advcl |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 field | det |
| 21 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 field | compound |
| 22 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 develop | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Sea | det |
| 25 | Caspian | Caspian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Sea | compound |
| 26 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 field | nmod |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 straddles | nsubj |
| 28 | straddles | straddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 field | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 nations | det |
| 30 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 border | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 30 nations | case |
| 32 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 straddles | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | past | the governments of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan | a memorandum of understanding | 21 2021 January | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent memorandum=Theme on 21=Destination | |||
| 2 | develop | to-infinitive | the governments of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan not said here | a oil field | the Caspian Sea | jointly property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Product | ||
| 3 | straddle | present | a oil field | the nations's border | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme border=Co-Theme |
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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