Turkmenistan, sentence 65
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.
The sudden death of Niyazov at the end of 2006 left a complete vacuum of power, as his cult of personality, comparable to the one of eternal president Kim Il Sung of North Korea, had precluded the naming of a successor.
Who acts: sudden death, Niyazov · What happens: leave, preclude, die, name · To what, where: complete vacuum, naming, end, successor
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 (sudden death, Niyazov), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 death | det |
| 2 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 death | amod |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Niyazov | case |
| 5 | Niyazov | Niyazov | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 death | nmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 death | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 2006 | case |
| 10 | 2006 | 2006 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 end | nmod |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 vacuum | det |
| 13 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 vacuum | amod |
| 14 | vacuum | vacuum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 power | case |
| 16 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vacuum | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cult | punct |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 cult | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cult | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cult | cult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 personality | case |
| 22 | personality | personality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cult | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 comparable | punct |
| 24 | comparable | comparable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cult | amod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 one | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 one | det |
| 27 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 comparable | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 president | case |
| 29 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 president | amod |
| 30 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 one | nmod |
| 31 | Kim | Kim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Il | compound |
| 32 | Il | Il | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Sung | compound |
| 33 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 president | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Korea | case |
| 35 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Korea | compound |
| 36 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Sung | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 precluded | punct |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 precluded | aux |
| 39 | precluded | preclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 left | parataxis |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 naming | det |
| 41 | naming | naming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 precluded | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 successor | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 successor | det |
| 44 | successor | successor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 naming | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the sudden death of Niyazov at the end of 2006 | a complete vacuum of power | as death's cult of personality | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vacuum=Theme | |||
| 2 | preclude | past · perfect | the naming of a successor | vn exclude-107.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naming=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die | Niyazov | at the end of 2006 | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent at=place | |||||
| 4 | name | a successor | nom naming «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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