Turkmenistan, sentence 290
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.
A possible explanation for the fire is that a Soviet drilling operation in 1971 caused it; however, in 2013 Canadian explorer George Kourounis examined the crater and believed that no one actually knew how it started.
Who acts: possible explanation, George, one, explanation · What happens: drill, be, examine, believe, know, start · To what, where: crater · 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 (possible explanation, George, one, explanation), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 explanation | det |
| 2 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 explanation | amod |
| 3 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caused | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 fire | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 explanation | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 caused | cop |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 caused | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 operation | det |
| 10 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 operation | compound |
| 11 | drilling | drill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 operation | amod |
| 12 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caused | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1971 | case |
| 14 | 1971 | 1971 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 operation | nmod |
| 15 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 caused | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 examined | punct |
| 18 | however | however | ADV | _ | 26 examined | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 however | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 explorer | case |
| 21 | 2013 | 2013 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 explorer | nummod |
| 22 | Canadian | Canadian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 explorer | amod |
| 23 | explorer | explorer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 George | obl |
| 24 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 examined | nsubj |
| 25 | Kourounis | Kourounis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 George | flat |
| 26 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 caused | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 crater | det |
| 28 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 examined | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 believed | cc |
| 30 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 examined | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 knew | mark |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 one | det |
| 33 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 knew | nsubj |
| 34 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 35 knew | advmod |
| 35 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 believed | ccomp |
| 36 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 started | advmod |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 started | nsubj |
| 38 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 knew | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drill | gerund | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | a possible explanation for the fire | a Soviet drilling operation in 1971 nsubj; operation obj; cause property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | examine | past | George in 2013 Canadian explorer | the crater | however property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crater=Theme | |||
| 4 | believe | past | George in 2013 Canadian explorer not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | know | past | no one | actually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | start | past | explanation | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Turkmenistan», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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