Turkmenistan, sentence 295
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.
Municipal bus service began in Ashgabat in 1925 with five routes, and taxicab service began in 1938 with five vehicles.
Who acts: Municipal bus service, taxicab service · What happens: begin · To what, where: Ashgabat, 1938
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 (Municipal bus service, taxicab service), 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 | Municipal | municipal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 service | amod |
| 2 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 service | compound |
| 3 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Ashgabat | case |
| 6 | Ashgabat | Ashgabat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 began | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1925 | case |
| 8 | 1925 | 1925 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 began | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 routes | case |
| 10 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 routes | nummod |
| 11 | routes | route | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 began | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 14 | taxicab | taxicab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 service | compound |
| 15 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 began | nsubj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1938 | case |
| 18 | 1938 | 1938 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 began | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 vehicles | case |
| 20 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 vehicles | nummod |
| 21 | vehicles | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 began | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Municipal bus service | Ashgabat | in 1925; with five routes | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with route=Subeventuality | |||
| 2 | begin | past | taxicab service | 1938 | with five vehicles | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with vehicle=Subeventuality |
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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